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Francis Ball's Descendants 



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The West Springfield Ball Family 



From 1640 to 1902. 



BY T. H. BALL, 

CROWN POINT, INDIANA. 

1902. 



Press of 

J. J. Wheeler, 

Crown Point, Indiana. 



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HY T. H. HALL. 



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INTRODUCTION. 



INTRODUCTION. 

Genealogy is not what it was a number of years ago, but 
it has of late been placed, says Dr. Henry R. Stiles, "in 
the front rank of honorable sciences or studies." 

To quote again, he says: "I assume that the genealo- 
gist is engaged in the highest form of historical and liter- 
ary labor. I am certain that the results of his labors have 
a direct and most important relation to the highest forms 
of historical literature." And he adds, that "nearly fifty 
years of experience has convinced" him that true genealo- 
gists "are, as a rule, magnificently generous," and that 
"they will go farther to aid others than" any other class 
of students with which he has become acquainted. 

He gives several qualifications for a good genealogist. 

I am glad to be able to give these prefatory state- 
ments from one who has had so many years of experience 
and has written so many works, Henry R. Stiles, A. M., 
M. D. 

I have undertaken to prepare a genealogical record of 
the Ball family of West Springfield, Massachusetts, the 
descendants of Francis Ball, who was an early settler in 
Springfield, and whose date of settlement there is placed 
at 1640. As one of his descendants, and as one interested 
in genealogical and historical research and having had 



\V PRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 



soiTic t-.\j>< I u iiL I 111 liicNc iiiicb, 1 hope lo succcchI in this 
undertaking;. The earlier material was collecteti by my 
grandfather, known as Lieut. Charles Ball of what is now 
the town of Holyoke. who was thirteen years of age when 
his grandfather. Benjamin Ball, died. Benjamin was con- 
temporary with his father. Capt. Jonathan Ball, son of 
Francis Ball, more than fifty years, and so had the means 
of obtaining all the ancestral knowledge which his father 
possessed. But there came to my grandfather no tradition 
of the migration of the family from England. I nuan no 
reliable tradition. I account for this lack of migration 
knowledge from this fact that our long-lived ancestor. 
Jonathan, was but three years of age when he lost his 
father, having only then a mother and a little brother 
about one year of age. He could gain, therefore, Ironi 
that father no knowledge as to his father's kindred, or 
early home, or crossing the ocean, or any valuable fact; 
and it is not probable that his mother, who soon married 
again, took any care to instruct him in what knowledge she 
may have obtained. I take it for granted that she was a 
good mother, she was of a good famil\', but she woukl not 
be likely to think of the value of a knowledge of ances- 
try. So I infer that Jonathan had no knowledge of that 
kind to impart to his son, lUnjamin. My grandfather, 
however, had heard that three by the name of Ball came 
over from Kngland. one settling in Virginia, two in New 
England. Une of these was I'Vancis. Of tluir relation- 
ship he was not sure. 



INTRODUCTION. 5. 



About seventy years ago. in the state of Georgia, on ac- 
count of a conversation between my father and a Georgi- 
an who had married a Ball, I first heard of our possible re- 
lationship to the mother of Washington. My father knew 
of no proof, and my grandfather placed no reliance on the 
tradition. So we laid that possibility aside. 

Last year, through a not very distant cousin of mine, 
Mrs. Samuel Edgcombe, whose mother and mine were 
born in the same parish in the same year. I learned several 
new facts and saw possibilities becoming probabilities. 

This year, through the results of the "Ball International 
Union," the probabilities are stated as certainties. Not 
having the evidence before me, and having learned in 
years of research that much caution is needful in receiv- 
ing traditions and inferences, I do not feel the full assur- 
ance that documentary and positive evidence would give, 
in regard to the latest statements concerning the Ball an- 
cestry. I quote however, from the "Union Record" of April, 
1902, this statement: "William Ball of Wiltshire, Eng., 
had six sons, who came to America in 1635 on the ship 
Planter, namely: Ailing, Francis, John, Samuel, Richard, 
and William. They first landed at Boston, and then went 
to various parts." 

I think it will be difficult to find documentary evidence 
that these came on the ship Planter, in 1635. 

But it does not matter particularly when or how they 
came. As found here somewhere between 1630 and 1650 
it is evident they came. 



6. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 

As I propose to give a quite full record of Francis Ball's 
descendants, in this introduction will be given a few state- 
ments in regard to the descendants of Ailing Hall of New 
Haven, of John of Concord, of Richard, and of William 
Ball of Virginia. 

Of these five families of Balls, there is no room ior 
doubt. That they were brothers, however, some of us, 
not having the evidence, may be inclined to question. My 
further sources of information, besides what my grand- 
father collected, are, "The Union Record" published by 
the "'Ball International Union." (an organization formed 
last August,) and by Keuka College; also statements given 
by Mrs. Samuel Kdgcombe of Mystic, daughter of Desire 
Worthington Ball of Agawam; statements of Dr. Horace 
Iv Hayden, a descendant of Francis Ball in the line of his 
scconil son, Samuel; also works in the large city library 
of Chicago, especially "A Genealogical Register of 
the First Settlers of New England," by John Farmer, Lan- 
caster, Mass., 1829; "Savage's Genealogical Diction- 
ary of New England," several volumes; a large old work 
called "The Original Lists," from 1600 to 1700, lists of, 
$hips and passengers leaving England for America, includ- 
ing the passengers on the May Flower, the Planter, and 
very many others, long, long lists of names, claiming to 
be from original documents; and other works of. similar 
character. Besides these authorities, gatherings or glean- 
ings from other sources. 



INTRODUTION. 



r. Alling Ball. 

He was evidently an early settler in New Haven. Sav- 
age mentions him there in 1644 or 1643. Some wrote the 
name Allen. His wife's name was Dorothy. He is named 
in connection with the Tuttle family. Seventeen by the 
name of Tuttle, written in the "Original Lists" TuttcU, 
embarked on the ship Planter from London for New Eng- 
land in April 1635. These were W. Tuttell, twenty-six 
years of age, Elizabeth Tuttell, twenty-three years of age, 
and three children; also Richard Tuttell, age forty-two, 
Ann, forty-one, Isabell, seventy, and three children; also 
"Jo:" Tuttell, thirty-nine, Joan Tuttell, forty-two, and four 
children. 

With these, somewhere, and at some time, in England 
or America, Alling Ball became acquainted. Of his chil- 
dren four sons are named: Edward, born about 1643, but 
whose relation to Alling Ball as son rests more on circum- 
stantial than on positive evidence, who became the head 
of a large family, the Union Record saying, "The living 
descendants of Edward now probably number two or three 
thousand;" and of whom a genealogist says: Edward Ball 
was at Branford in 1667, and the same year, 1667, he re- 
moved to Newark. His children, or some of his children* 

bore these names: Caleb, Abigail, Joseph, Lydia, Moses, 
Thomas; the last of whom, says the genealogist, "was pro- 
genitor of a great multitude;" John, born April 15, 1649! 
Eliphalet, born Feb. 11, 1651; and Alling, born Jan. 27, 
1656; and one daughter Mary or Mercy. 



8. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 

John Ball, the first son of Ailing whose birth record has 
been found, was married in 167S to Sarah Glo\'er, daugh- 
ter of Henry Glover of Medfiekl. [Feb. 10, 1676, Mercy or 
Mary Ball, says Savage a daughter of Ailing Ball, aiul so 
a sister of this John Ball, was married to George Bordee 
or Pordee of New Haven. March 12, 1685, Sarah, daugh- 
ter of John Ball, surely not of this one. probably of his 
uncle John, was married to Allen Flagg of Watertown. 
In 1690 some John Ball, thin of Lancaster, married Han- 
nah Rugg daughter of John Rugg. (3nce more the name 
of John Ball has been found, as it is on record that Doro- 
thy, daughter of John Ball of New Haven, was married 
March 21. 1705. to Nathaniel Wadsworth of Farmington. 
who seems to have been a near relative of that Wadsworth 
who in 1687 put out the lights and hid the Connecticut 
charter. One more unconnected record may be placed here. 
Ruth Ball, father's name not given, was married Sept. 24, 
1656. to David Walsbee, then of I^raintree.] One Elipha- 
let Ball, probably the son of Ailing, was married Feb. 13. 
1673. to Hannah Nash, who was born July 24, 1645, daugh- 
ter of John Nash. After her husband's death Mrs. Hall 
was married, April 2. 1689. to Thomas Trowbridge of New 
Haven. 

Descendants of John l^ill and Sarah (Glover) Ball. 

Three of their sons are named. John. Kliphalet. and 
Ailing, thr parents thus repeating the earlier names. John, 
born in 16S5, was married to Mary Tuttle in 17 16. Four 
sons are named as his children: John. Eliphalet, Timothy. 
and Strphen. 



INTRODUTION. 



Of these four, Eliphalet, born in 1722 at New Haven, 
has the following record. He was graduated from Yale 
College in 1748, became a Presbyterian minister, founded 
Ballston called at first Ball's Farm, was married in 175010 
Elisabeth Von Fleming and after her death to Ruth Buch- 
er, entertained General Washington at his home in 1783, 
and claimed him as a third cousin, and died in 1797. His 
children were: John Ball, who became Lieutenant in a New 
York regiment, Marion Willet, Colonel; Flamen Ball, 
whose daughter, Emily Amanda, was married to John S 
Patterson, and was the mother of Andrew Stuart Patterson 
of Plainfield, N. J; Stephen Ball of whom no record is at 
hand; and an only daughter, Mary Stuart Ball, who, be- 
came the wife of Gen. James Gordon, a member of Wash- 
ington's staff. 

Descendants of other children of Ailing Ball not traced, 
except one. 

Ailing 2d or Ailing Jun., son of Ailing Ball of New 
Haven, was married Nov. 24, 1678, to Sarah Thompson. 
Their children were: Sarah, born 1679, Lydia, born 1681. 
Ailing who soon died, and Mercy, Mabel, dates of birth 
not at hand, and another son also named Ailing according 
to a custom of those times. 



10. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL KAMILY. 



Francis Ball. 

See his descendants in the body of this work. 

Farmer in his "Register" refers, as authority for this 
Francis to "Sprague's Historical Discourse." It seems a 
little singular, but the evidence is good, that there was a 
Francis Ball at Dorchester besides the one who went to 
Springfield in 164O. What relation to each other, if any, 
the two were, does not appear. 

This Francis Ball of Dorchester in 1664 married Abi- 
gail Salter (Abigail must have been a very common Puri- 
tanic name.) Their children were: John, born April 15, 
1665. who died young; Abigail, born Aug. 14. 1667; Fran- 
cis, born Feb. 21, 1670; Benjamin, born Aug. 30, 1675. 

There are, probably, living descendants somewhere of 
Francis Ball of Dorchester. 

3. John Ball. 

The first mention found of a New England John Ball 
is at Concord. He became a freeman of that town in 
1650. It is said that he had a brother, name not given, 
and they came from Wiltshire, F^ngland. He died in Sep- 
tember, 1655. ^^^ ^'^^^ ^^^o sons, Nathaniel ami John. 
John Ball 2d was born in Kngland, became a resident of 
Walerlown. married Kli/.abeth Pierce, daughter of John 
Pierce. He removed to Lancaster and was killed by the 
Indians Sept. 10, 1675. ^^^" had a son also named John. 
born in 1644, and daughters named Mary, F'sther, Sarah, and 
Abigail. John Ball 3d whose residence is given at Water- 



INTRODUCTION. II. 



town, was married in 1665 to Sarah Bullard. Their chil- 
dren were: Sarah, born in 1666, John 4th born 1668, James. 
1670, Joseph, 1674, Jonathan, 1680, Daniel, 1683, and Abi- 
gail, 1686. John Ball 3d died in 1722. 

Nathaniel Ball, son of the John Ball of Concord, born 
probably in England as was his brother John, settled in 
Concord. He had four sons, Nathaniel, Ebenezer, Elea- 
zer, and John. 

According to "The Union Record" the following" is one 
line from John Ball of Concord to the present time: 

I. John Ball 1650. 2. John Ball, who married Eliza- 
beth Pierce. 3. John Ball who married Sarah Bullard. 
4. Benjamin Ball who married. Mary Brewer in 1704. 5. 
Thomas Ball who married Hannah Wright \n 1739. 6. 
Z&tbabel Ball who marriec^'^Mary BruceA'/.^fZeiDa^feall 
who married Anna Hinkle^ Fairchild. 8. J4s gc Ba il who 
married Urji^iJU^Xajwi^ai^Park^^ 9,— Atxa My- 

axkn Ba4f- wh-o-rrmrrrett -Strait- Ad-almePinrnmer. kI Jesse 
Charles Ball who married E\-a Etta Lynn in iSS^at Syra- 
cuse, N. Y. 

These last now living. 

4. Samuel Ball. 
This line not yet found. 

5. Richard Ball. 

One Richard Ball, probably this one, was a resident at 
Salisbury in 1650. He removed to Dover in 1658. Traces 
of his descendants not yet found. 



12. WEST SPRINGFIELD HALL FAMILY. 

6. I. William Hall. 

2. Joseph Ball. 

3. Mary Ball. 

4. Georjjc Washington. 

These names represent three generations in the line of 
William Ball of Virginigia, and if the statement in regard 
to the six Ball brothers pro\es to be reliable, which I hope 
it will, then not only was Washington Rev. Eliphalet Ball's 
third cousin, (as this Eliphalet was the great grandson of 
Ailing Ball,) but he was also the third cousin of Charles 
Hall and of Moses Ball, who were great grandsons of 
Francis Ball, brother, according to the statement, of Ailing 
and of William. 

The Hall coat of arms, granted in 1613, belonging to 
liall of Northamptonshire, seems to have been claimed by 
Ailing Hall, probably the oldest son of William of Wilt- 
shire, and a book-plate of the same is said to be now in 
the possession of Andrew Stuart Patterson of Philadel])hia 
who is of the seventh American generation, counting Ai- 
ling Hall as the first. Description: 

"Argent, a lion passant sable, on a chief of the second 
three mullets of the first." 

Crest. "A stag trij)pant |)r()i)er." 

Motto. "Semper caveto. " 

This same coat of arms, but with a different crest and 
motto, is claimed also by the Ball family of Virginia, and 
this is considered by authorities in such matters as a strong 



INTRODUCTION. I3. 



proof that Ailing and William Ball were brothers. One 
more quotation from the April "Union Record" will close 
this introduction, "The ancestry of William Ball of Wilt- 
shire, England, is not yet clear, but his descendants were 
certainly the six sons who came to America in 1635;" with 
this additional remark: that it is not at all needful, in order 
to establish the relation of brothers as to the six by the 
name of Ball who ha\e been mentioned, to show that they 
came over in the ship Planter with the Tuttles. This, ac- 
cording to the "Original Lists" they did not do. But at 
some time they came, for they are found at Springfield, 
at New Haven, at Concord, at Newark, at Dover, and in 
Virginia. T. H. B, 



14- WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 

THF WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 

It has not been ascertained, unless it has been done re- 
cently, in what year Francis Ball, the ancestor of this fam- 
ily, came from England, but there is evidence that as early 
as 1639 he was at Dorchester near Boston. His more im- 
mediate descendants, who were certainly intelligent per- 
sons, seem to have possessed no knowledge in regard to 
his English ancestry, or of any incidents occurring on the 
ocean; or any knowledge of any kindred with whom he 
came. And a reason for this want of knowledge has been 
presented in the Introduction. But their knowledge of 
some members of this West Springfield family is perfectly 
reliable from 1640 onward to the present. For in that 
year he is found as a settler in Springfield, having a loca- 
tion on the west side of the Connecticut River, where still 
in that home of civilization the ancient cemetery may be 
found; and in two other cemeteries, the one in what was the 
north parish and the other in the south, now known as the 
towns of Holyoke and of Agawam, the memorial stones 
may be found marking the birth and death of se\'en or 
eight successive generations of this family of Balls. 

That many of this name in cjuitc early times came to 
America is evident from the fact that so many of them 
were soldiers in the Revolutionary War. The names of 
one hundred and forty-three Balls can be found on the 
record, among them seventeen by the name of John, and 
how many of all these were nearby related no one living 
can tell. 



FRANCIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. I 5- 

GENEALOGY. 

Note. In this record the Arabic characters will be 
used to denote the generations, and Francis Ball will be 
marked I, and the Roman notation will be used to denote 
the number of children in the order, so far as known, of 
their birth. 

I. Francis Ball, a settler in the Connecticut River 
Valley in 1640, haxing resided for a time in the vicinity of 
Boston, was married in 1644 to Abigail Burt daughter of 
Henry Burt, an early resident of Roxbury, near Boston. 
The dwelling house of Henry Burt having been burned a 
grant in his behalf, of eight pounds sterling, was made by 
the General Court in November, 1639. In 1640 he re- 
moved to Springfield and was there appointed Clerk of 
Writs. The Burt tradition is that his wife when in Eng- 
land was supposed to be dead and her body was even laid 
in a casket for burial, but she revived, came to America, 
and it is asserted that she was the mother of eleven sons 
and eight daughters. Abigail Burt Ball was the second 
daughter, born probably in England, and whether she had 
or had not eleven brothers, from her and Francis Ball all 
of the West Springfield family of Balls have descended. 

Children: 

2. i. Jonathan, born in 1645. ^^ '^ said to have been 
the first white boy born in what became West Springfield. 
2. ii. Samuel, born in 1647. 
Francis Ball was drowned in the Connecticut River in 



l6. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 

October, 1648. probably not more than 40 years of age. It 
is understood that Mrs. Hall remarried. 

As the West Springfield Hall family, haviiiij; mem- 
bers now in Massachusetts, Connecticut. Indiana, and 
Illinois; also in Alabama and Texas, and also in other 
states, are descendants of Abigail Burt as well as of Fran- 
cis Ball, such knowledge as is at hand of their English 
mother ought to be preserved. 

No likeness of her can be expected to exist. But there 
are some facts from which inferences may be drawn. 

Her father. Henr\' Burt, was married in England, and 
certainly had a large family. 

From the known dates Abigail must have been born in 
England, but probably her father came to Massachusetts 
in her childhood. The date of hir marriage to Francis 
Ball, 1644, is quite well established. After his ileath in 
1648, Mrs. Ball, as the Munn record states, "Abigail, wid- 
ow of Francis Ball, daughter of Henry Burt." was married, 
in 1649, to Benjamin Munn. who had been a soldier in tiie 
Pequot war in 1637, and who had removed from Hartford 
to .Springfield. They had a daughter named Abigail, born 
in 1650. They had also four sons, John, BiMijamin, James, 
and Nathaniel. The (laugher, Abigail Munn, a half sister 
of cour'^c of Jonathan and Samuel Ball, was married. Die. 

21, 167-, i<' Thomas Stebbins Jr. Jienjamin Munn died in 
Nov. 1675, and his widow, a second time- left a widow and 
no longer young, was marrit-d Dec. 1.4. 1676, to Liiut. 
Thomas Slebbins Sen., the father of her daughter's husband 



FRANCIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. I/. 



It may be inferred from this last marriage that she was 
rather an attractive woman and one with some good per- 
sonal qualities. One of her sisters, "Sarah, daughter of 
Henry Burt," had married in 1643 Judah Gregory of 
Springfield. Another, Mary, in 1654, married William 
Brooks and had eight sons and eight daughters. A third 
sister, Elizabeth, in Nov. 1653, married Samuel Wright. 
A fourth, Patience, in 1667, married John Bliss. A fifth, 
Mercy ^js married Jan, 2^ 1667 to Judah Wright,. A sixth, 
Hannah, married in 1657 John Bagg, and had ten children. 
The se\enth and last, Dorcas, was married Oct. 25, 1658 
to John Stiles, in which family, relation not given, was the 
noted Dr. Ezra Stiles. 

These marriages are given in the order, evidently, of the 
ages of the daughters. Henry Burt, whose wife's given 
name was Ulalia, died April 30, 1662. His wife, Mrs. 
Burt, died Aug. 29, 1690. Three of their sons were, Jona- 
than, David, and Nathaniel. Jonathan Burt, the oldest 
son, born in England, was married at Boston in 165 1 to 
Elizabeth Lobdell. He removed to Springfield. He is 
called "a man of note." He was a church deacon. Henry 
Morris, in his early history of Springfield, mentions him 
as being in 1675 ^"^ ^^ the leading men of the town, men 
"wise and sagacious" but "well advanced in life." Morris 
says that he was "for a time town clerk." He died in 
October, 171 5. One of his daughters, Sarah, married in 



l8. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 



thai memorable year for Springfield when on Tuesday. 
Oct. 5. 1675. out of 45 houses in Springfield. 32 were 
burned by Indians, Benjamin Dorchester of Springfield. 
who dying in 1676. she married in 1677 Luke Hitchcock. / 

So that, if these several family lines could be traced out, 
the descendants of Jonathan and Samuel Hall, would find, 
through the half sister Mrs. Stebbins, and through the 
cousins, many distant relations bearing well known New 
Kngland names. 

And there is probably another connection with the Steb- 
bins family, as Martha Hall, apparently a West Spring- 
field girl, but whose daughter probably no one now can 
learn, was married to Henjamin Stebbins who died in 1748, 
a grandson of Thomas Stebbins of West Springfield. (See 
("Centennial Celebration." page 122.) They had six chil- 
dren: Henjamin. Francis, Martha. Miriam, Mary, Mercy. 
The line of Henjamin Stebbins, son of MarthlTi^ail Steb- 
bins, is traced to 1867. 

In that s.ime "Centennial Celebration" record. th( lol- 
lowing appears in the Hagg genealogy: "He married" — 
refering to John Hagg "Oct. 24. 1657. Hannah Hurt. (b. . 
April 28, 1641, d. Aug. I, 1680) dau. of Deacon Henry 
Hurt and Ulalia his wife, who emigrated from Ivngland to 
Roseburg" perhaps a misj)rint for Roxbury — "and thence 
removed to .Springfield in 1640." That genealogy further 
says that from three of H.innah liurt Hagg's grandchildren 
"all the Haggs now living in West Springfic^ld [1874] are 
''••<rcndcd." 



FRAN'CIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. I9. 

The members, then, of the large and noted Bagg family 
of West Springfield stand in the same relation as do the 
members of the West Springfield Ball family to Deacon 
Henry Burt and his wife Ulalia, for Hannah Burt Bagg 
and Abigail Burt Ball were sisters. 



Suggestions, i. As in a short time the \-oung eyes 
of some of Captain Jonathan Ball's descendants will be 
searching these records, a suggestion is offered here to 
awaken their imagination, that they may form some men- 
tal pictures of the past. Two little boys, brothers, Jona- 
than and Samuel Ball, were in a home on the west side of 
a beautiftil ri\er, with a mother, but fatherless, until a 
step-father came in, and then a halt sister and some half 
brothers came; but there were no Ball kindred th.it their 
childhood knew. What to them, if they had them, were 
cousins in Concord or New Haven or in Virginia, of whom 
they knew nothing, whom they were ne\er to know? Do 
the two brothers look lonely? But see them go over the 
river to their grandfather Burt's home, to their good 
grandmother Burt, and to their uncle Jonathan Burt's 
home, and see them petted and cared for by seven good 
aunts, one of them at least only a few years older than them- 
selves — Hannah, born in 1641 — and realize the suggestion 
here offered, that they had a good many and some very 
nice kindred. 2. Nothing has been found to enable one 
to determine as to the amount of property possessed by 
Francis Ball, our first American ancestor, but the second 



20. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 



su^'gestion is. that from the tact of his having married in- 
to this Burt family, and from a further fact that will soon 
appear of the large tracts of land in the possession of his 
son's family, it may be inferred that he was in possession 
at the time of his marriage and of his death of a fair amount 
of property. For at least six generations the men of his 
line have been landholders. 

It may also quite readily be inferred from Benjamin 
Munn's seeking Mrs. Abigail Ball in marriage that she 
was not then altogether a portionless, dependent 
widow. 3. A third suggestion is. that no one should ex- 
|>cct to find the Ball name in the earlier history- of Spring- 
field, for after 1648 there were but two lioys to bear the 
name for twenty-five or thirty years, till they grew into 
full manhood, and then one of them went to Northam[)ton; 
and until the French War c.ime the descendants oi tlu 
other seem not to have mingled much in public affairs. 
From that time till now the Ball name can be found in 
the records of the times as they have passed along. 

GENEALOGY KKSUMED. 

2. 1 Jonathan Ball, left without an own father 
when ab(jut three years of age, attained a \ igorous man- 
hood; became Captain of Militia, an important position at 
that time; - his sword and spontoon having been taken by 
his grandson. Noah Ball, to the State of New York, where 
they may be in existence now-was twice ni an ied, his secoiul 
wife being Mrs. Susanna Worthington widow of Nicholas 
Worthington; and dieil May 21, 1 741, nearl}', perhaps 



FRANCIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. 21. 



fully, 96 years of age. 

Chiltlreii: 

3. i. Thomas, born 1676. 

3. ii. Samuel, born in 1680. 

3. iii. Jonathan, born 1683. 

3. iv. Francis, born 1687. 

3. V. Benjamin, born 1689. 

3. vi. Joseph, born 1695.^ 

3. \ii. \iii. ix. Margaret, Sarah, and Abigail, date of 
birth not known. Probably born before Joseph, perhaps 
one before Francis. 

3. X. xi. xii. Names not known. 

In all twehe children of whom six died when young. 

Remark. When in A{)ril, 1707, the land on the west 
bank of the Connecticut ha\ing been divided into "plots 
of ten acres each" and then assigned by lot to the men of 
West Springfield who were twenty-one years of age, the 
number of whom was found to be seventy-three, there 
were among these only three by the name of liall, Lest 
Ball, Samuel Ball, and Francis Ball. The Samuel and 
Francis were probably sons of Capt. Ball, but who Lest 
Ball was is a matter of wild conjecture, as no other family 
of Balls seems to have settled in that town. Yet there is 
documentary evidence tnat a man over twenty-one years 
of age or supposed to be, called Lest Ball, was in 1707 a 
citizen of what became West Springfield. 

A statement for this book has just been sent from Hol- 
yoke, found in "Burt's History of Springfield" by Charles 



WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY 



K Hall anil Charles G. AIl\'n. which purports to be a copy 
of old town or county records, that "a j^^rant of land west 
of the falls of the Great Ri\er" was made to Jonathan 
Ball in November, 1 702. 

Before followin}^ up these lines it may be well to insert 
here what has been learned in regard to the descendants 
of Samuel Ball. 

2. 11. Samuel Ball, the second son of l^rancis, born 
in 1647. married Mary Graves. 

Children: 
3 i Francis, 3. ii. Mar)-, 3. iii. Eiizabeth, 3. iv. 
Abi^jail. And perhaps anion},' his children was Martha. 

Samuel Ball made his home in Northampton. He died 
in 1689. His widow, Mary Ball, April 11, i6yo, was mar- 
ried to Benjamin Stebbins. Kither some genealogist has 
made a mistake, or there was. which is quite probable, 
more tnan one lienjamin Stebbins. The oiu' that married 
Martha Ball was born in 1677. She may have been born 
about 16S0. 

The following (juotations contain the information now 
at hand concerning the continuance of this liiu'. 
3 "Abigail [Ball J was mother to Moses Parsons." 
; "Moses was father to Abigail Parsons lla\cien." 
5 "Abigail was m<>th«r to K. Parsons Ilayden.'-' 

6. "K. Parsons Hayden was father of the Rev. Horace 
Hayden of W'ilkesbarre, Pennsylvania." 

7. Rev. Horace K. Hayden is, according to these ijuo- 
tation>i whii-h are from good authority, a member of the 



FRANCIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. . 23. 



seventh generation, calling Francis Ball of 1640 the first. 
Dr. Hayden is an experienced genealogist. 



Descendants of Jonathan Ball resumed. 
3. i. Thomas Ball died young. 

3. ii. Samuel Ball became a physician. Was drowned 
in the Agawam River. 

To this Samuel the following statements must surely re- 
fer. They are taken from the published account of the 
"Centennial Celebration" of West Springfield, page 121 
under '"Genealogy of the Smith Family." That record 
says, of a son of Benjamin Smith, "Jonathan had a large 
and stately house erected for his use just east of the brook^ 
on a commanding eminence at the junction of two roads, 
ha\-ing married Margaret, the only child of Samuel Ball 
of West Springfield Center." That record further states, 
an item of some interest to the Balls, that this Samuel 
Ball having died and a second wife surviving, "it was 
found by his will that he had devised his real estate, with 
the exception of his homestead, to the children of his 
daughter and the child of his second wife by a former 
marriage, so that the 'great swamp,' as it was called, now 
known as Ball's swamp, with other large tracts of land, 
fell into the possession of the Smith family." 

la a beautiful poem of a hundred and thirty or more 
lines, written by Brainerd, published as early as 1834, 
called "Connecticut River," are these words in the des- 
cription of an evening's entertainment: 



J4 WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 



"Aiul then the chubby j^raiulchild wants to know- 
About the j^hosts and witches long ago, 
That haunted the old swamp." 

This true "old swamp" wc may without vanity assume 
to be the real Ball Swamp of the Connecticut Valley. 

Surely many of us of this West Springfield line can join 
in the sentiment e.xpressed by Brainerd, as he writes: 

"Stream of my sleeping fathers! when the sound 

Of coming war echoed thy hills around, 
How did thy sons start forth from every glade. 

Snatching the musket where they left the spade! 
How did their mothers urge them to the fight, 

Their sisters tell them to defend the right; 
How bravely did they stand, how nobly fall. 

The earth their coffin, and the turf their pall." 

1.1 aving poetry and sentiment it seems rather strange 
that we must needs go to the .Smith genealogy of West 
.Springfield to finil an\- information concerning Margaret 
Ball, an only child, and the great Ball swamp. It seems 
that this Margaret had six .Smith sons and one daughter. 
the daughter bearing her mother's name of Margaret. 

3 III Jonathan liall. married ami settled in Gran- 
ville. 

.Sons: 

4 i. Jonathan, engaged in the war of 1775. Became 
"Major of a regiment of his Majesty's Provincial troops. 



FRANCIS ball's DESCENDANTS. 25. 



He went to Boston to procure the money to pay his 
troops, and on his return to Springfield was taken with the 
small pox and died March 7, 1760, in the thirtieth year of 
his age." According to family tradition he made a very 
fine appearance on horseback. 

4. II. Lybeus Ball, his brother, was Major of a regi- 
ment in the Revolutionary War. 

The following is his record as taken from a large work, 
"Soldiers and Sailors of New England in Revolutionary 
War." 

Libbeus [Lybeus] Ball, Capt. of Massachusetts militia, 
Apr. 20, 1775. Major of Mass. Militia commissioned Nov. 
I, 1777. In Continental Army, at Valley Forge ten 
months, Capt. twenty-six months. Promoted Major Sept- 
1778. Major of Col. Shepard's 3d regiment. 

No further information of the Granville family at hand 
except that Major Lybeus Ball removed to the state of 
New York. 

It is probable that Jonathan Ball of Granville had other 
children. 

Note. From an intelligent, reliable woman, Mrs. Mc- 
Intyre, born in 181 5, now 86 years of age, I have learned 
of a family of Balls of Brookfield, New York. Their 
names are, Justin, Lyman, David, James, Hannah, Betsey, 
and Mary called also Polly. 

Justin Ball was a pensioner of the Rev. War. He may 
have been a brother of the two majors. Hannah Ball was 
a daughter of Justin Ball. She was born about 1783. She 



26. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 

lived to be 84 years of age and died in 1866 or 1867. This 
family of Halls came to Hrookfield from the East. 

3. IV. Francis Ball settled in Sprinj,rtield. Lett no 
descendants. 

3. V'l. Joseph Hall left a daughter (4. i.) who was 
married to Capt. Hoylston of Springfield. 

3. V. Hf.sj.amln Hall, born 1689— name of wife and 
date of marriage unknown — had four sons. 

4. i. Henjamin Jr., born about 1723. 
4. ii. Charles, born 1725. 

4. iii. Noah, date of birth unknown. 

4. iv. Moses, born 1733. 

Also one daughter. 

4. V. Abigail, date unknown. 

[According to the "West Springfield Centennial" Hen- 
jamin Hall sold in 1738 "three acres of land on the bank 
of the river" to Dbadiah Cooley Jun., who made another 
purchase "in Springfield" of land " 'on the west side of 
the Great River.' "] 

4. I. Henjamin Hall joined the English colonial army 
in the spring of 1745, and died at Cape Hreton Nov. 8, 

'74S- 

Note. In this same year his father, Henjamin Hall, re- 
moved with his family, to the north parish of what became 
West .S|)ringfii-ld. At that time about six families were 
in thr parish and "they fortcd together at night for fear 
of Indians." In the spring of 175 1 Henjamin liall jilanted 
what is now the "great elm tree," and some of his descen- 
dants in that old parish, now Holyoke, still reside. 



FRANCIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. 2/. 

4. II. The line of Charles is omitted for the present. 

4. III. Noah Ball married Anna Granger ofSuffield. 
Their children were in number seven, but three died 
young. The others were: 5. i. Noah Jun. ii. Sebe, who 
married a daughter of Maj. Silas Burke of Westminister, 
iii. Thadeus, and iv. Sarah. Noah Ball at length removed 
with all his family to Steuben county, New York. 

4. V. Abigail Ball married Zephaniah Taylor of Suf- 
field. Line not traced. 

4. IV. Moses Ball married Lucy King. Date of 
marriage not given. Miss King was a resident of West 
Springfield. 

Children: 

5. i. Benjamin. 5. ii. Moses. 5. iii. Jonathan. 5. iv. Eli, 
born April 2, 1764. 5. v. Martin. 5. vi. Sarah. 5. vii 
Lucy. 5. viii. Abigail. This order of birth of the daugh- 
ters is not certain. 

5. I. Benjamin Ball. Line not traced. 

5. II. Moses Ball Jr. Line not traced. 

5. III. Jonathan Ball. Line not traced, 

5. IV. Eli Ball, settled on the family estate in West 
Springfield. He married Lucy Worthington of his native 
town in 1787. She was then fifteen years of age and he 
was twenty-three. 



28. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILV. 

Children: 

(Seven sons and seven daughters.) 

6. i. Norman, born 1788. 

6. ii. Eli, born 1790. 

6. iii. Cynthia, born 1791, drowned when 16 years of age. 

6. iv. Lucy, born 1793. 

6. V. Henjamin, born 1795. 

6. vi. Francis, born 1797. 

6. vii. Betsey, born 1 799. 

6. viii. William, born 1801. 

6. ix. Desire Worthington, born 1804. 

6. X. Margaret, born 1806. 

6. xi. Cynthia 2d, born Jan. 1808. 

6. xii. Adeline, born 1809. 

6. xiii. Seymour, born 1812. 

8. xiv Samuel, born 1814. 

The lines ot but tew of these fourteen childrcMi traced. 
The following are statements given by one of the grand- 
children. 

i. ii. Norman lived on the estate with his father and 
Kli on one ailjoining. v. xiii. Benjamin and Seymour 
died while young men and unmarried, vi. hVancis set- 
tled in I'ennsylvania. viii. William settled in Spring- 
field, xiv. Samuel Ball, the youngest of the children, 
settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was for some time 
connected with the Pierce Match Factory, and was after- 
wards interested in .1 fur comi)any. 



FRANCIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. 29. 

These named aboved were the se\'en sons. The de- 
scendants of only one of these can here be given. 

6. I. Norman Ball, born in 1788, was married to Bet- 
sey Warriner of Agawam, Oct. 26, 1814. 

Children: 

7. i. Alfred Leonard, born Sept. ii, 181 5. 

He adopted the trade of boot-maker. He lived in 
Springfield and there died, April 29, 1902, eighty-seven 
years of age. He had been for some thirty years one of 
the most devoted members of the State street Baptist 
church of Springfield. He had a remarkable memory, 
was a great reader, "was familiar" says the Springfield 
Republican, "with all of the higher interests of the city, 
and was a keen observer of current events." That paper 
further says: "His death was due to old age. Until his 
retirement from active life about five years ago Mr. Ball 
was known as the most expert boot-maker in town, and 
he never Lacked work." 

"He had never married, but leaves a brother, M. W- 
Ball, father of Lewis J. Ball of this city, and two sisters, 
Mrs. William C. Clark of Worcester and Mrs. J. C. Hast- 
ings of Suffield." 

7. ii. Cynthia W., born Feb. 23, 1817, died June 8, 1902, 
since the sentence above quoted was written. 

7. iii. Elizabeth, born Jan. 31, 1819, died Jan. 5, 1899. 

7. iv. Norman Jun., born Sept. 16, 182 1, died Feb. 20, 
1902. 



30. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 

7. V. Meshach \V., born July 6, 1825. 
7. vi. Lucy Jane, born Dec. i, 1829. 

7. 11. Cynthia Hall was married to \Vm. C. Clark, 
Dec. 1843. 

Children: 

8. i. Willie, born Nov. 8, 1845, <^'^'<^ J^"- 27, 1852. 

8. ii. Ida E., born March 26, 1852, died Sept. 17, 1898. 

7. III. Klizabeth Ball was married to Dexter Winter. 
No children. 

7. I\'. Norman Jun., was married No\'. 15, 1849, to 
Julia A. Merrill who died Aug. 1890. He afterward. Dec. 
23, 1896. married Mrs. Nancy B. Hull. No children. 

7. V. Meshach W. Ball married, Jan. 28, 1857, Ann 
C. Judson. 

Children: 

8. i. Lewis J., born Aug. 18, 1858. 

8. ii. Betsey or Bessie A., born June 22, 1862. 

8. iii. Norman A., born May 3, 1864, died May 28. 
1872. 

8. iv. May J., born July 31, 1870. 

8. I. Lewis J. Ball married Gertrude Adams of West 
Derby, Vt., Sept. 23. 1888. 

Son: 9. i. Raymond Adams, born July 26, 1887. 

7. VI. Lucy Jane Ball was married to J. C. Hastings 
<)( -Suffield. No children. 

Note. In 1834 there were in the Baptist Sunday-school 
of Agawam, in one class, Meshach Ball, his cousin Edwin 



FRANCIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. 3 I. 

B. Warriner, Timothy H. Ball, Charles Bodurtha, and 
George King, all born in Agawam in 1825 and 1826. In 
August of 1881, Meshach Ball, Edwin B. Warriner of Illi- 
nois, and Timothy H, Ball of Indiana, the three survivors, 
met again for an hour in that Sunday-school and revived 
old and early associations. The three never met again, but 
two yet live. One writes this note. 

6. II. Eli Ball Jun. 

William Ball and Henry Ball of New York, by whom 
the Ball monument soon to be mentioned was erected, 
msst have been his sons, as the line on that monument isi 
Benjamin, Moses, Capt. Eli, Eli Jun., and then there is 
the name, Orpha Ball, about four years younger than Eli 
Jun; but of all these no further knowledge has as yet been 
obtained. As will be seen from the inscription, this Or- 
pha Ball lived from 1793 to 1878. 

Of the seven daughters of Capt. Eli Ball, two died in 
infancy, one was drowned in girlhood, two found homes 
in Springfield, Lucy Ball marrying Wm. Dewey, and the 
following are the records of the other two. 

6. VII. Betsey Ball, born in 1799, became in 1833 or 
1834 the second wife of Warren Chapin of Holyoke whose 
first wife was Merab Ball of the north parish, born in 1797, 
both of these great granddaughters of Benjamin Ball. 

Son: 

7. i. Judson Chapin. Not now living. For many 
years a business man in New York City. 

He married a quite wealthy lady of that city, but the 
writer of this has failed to learn her name or any facts 



32. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 

concerning their children. This he regrets but cannot 
help. 

6. IX. Desire Worthington Hall was married to Pal- 
mer Gallup, called "Scholar, Mathematician, Teacher, 
Musician." of Groton, Conn., May 22, 1828. Of her hus- 
band this note is given: "Palmer Gallup was a descen- 
dant of John Gallup and of Walter Palmer, pioneers of 
Boston Hay and Stonington. He died at Mystic River, 
his native place, Dec. 31. 18S0. in his 89th year." His 
wife died Feb. 20. 1869. 

"Children and Grandchildren of Palmer and Desire Ball 
Gallup." 

7. i. Mozart Gallup, born May 25, 1829 at Agawam, 
now of Sandusky, Ohio, married first, Mary Bagg, at Ely- 
ria. Ohio. Aug. 9. 1855. She died July 13. 1857, leaving 
one son: 

8 i. Frank Mozart, born Aug. 7, 1856. This son mar- 
Fanny Walker. 

For his second wife M. Gallup married, July 29, 1862. 
Hannah M. Gilbert, who died Nov. 28, 1889, leaving a 
daughter, Mary Hortense, born Nov. 9, 1S63. 

The third wife was Gladys F. Orermeyer, to whom M. 
Gallup was married June 13, 1900. He is a member of the 
Sandusky Tool Company. 

7. II J.-hii Tafel Gallup, born March 13, 1832, mar- 
ried Jane K. Young, Nov. i, 1858. For a time postmaster 
.Tt Grernport Long Island; "now of Brooklyn, N. Y." 



FRANCIS ball's DESCENDANTS. 33. 



Children: 

8. i. Edward W., born April 14, 1862. 

8. ii. Frank Seymour, born Sept. 25, 1866, married Jen- 
nie V. Dudley, and died in London. 

8. iii. Grace W., born May 23, 1868. 

8. iv. 8. V. Ray Clifford, Harry Wells, born Sept. 15^ 
1875. 

7. III. Adaline M. Gallup, born May 6, 1834, mar- 
ried Levi Watrous, at Suffield, Conn., Dec. ly, 1859. 

Children: 

8. i. Frederick Watrous, born Sept. 21, i860, was mar- 
ried July 18, 1888, to Mary Catherine Davis. 

8. ii. Palmer Gallup Watrous, born Jan. 10, 1864, died 
April 7, 1898. 

8. iii. Clifford Mozart Watrous, born March 23, 1872, 
was married June 23, 1899. 

7. IV. Hortense Desire Gallup, born Sept. 29, 1836, 

was married, at Suffield, Conn., Sept. 14, 1856, to Col. 

William S. Fish. He died in Glasgow, Scotland, April 

10, 1879. 

Children: 

8. i. Charles Palmer Fish, born Oct. 4, 1857. He was 
married, June i, 1884 to Fanny Parks. He died Jan. 13, 
1892. 

8. ii. Helen Hortense, born July 2, 1861, died Oct. 19, 
1862. 



34- WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL lAMlLY 

8. iii. William Louis, born Dec. 13, 1S65. He marrieci 
Edith C. Barnett. 

8. iv. j. Hamilton, born Nov. 14, 1868. tlicd July;. 1885. 

8. V. Kdmund Livingstone, born Aut^. 10, 1874, died in 
Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. i, 1874. 

8. vi. Walter T. Fish, born Feb. 21, 1876. He was mar- 
ried to Ellen Chuny Aug. 23. 1897. 

7. V. Elizabeth M. Gallup, born Sept. 9, 1842, was 
married at Mystic, Conn., to Samuel Edgcombe, Oct. 17. 
1863. 

Children: 

8. i. Fanny May, born Oct. 18, 1864. Married to M. 
W. Baker Dec. 21. 1887. 

8. ii. Lizzie Chapin, born Nov. 5, 1866. Married Na- 
than N. Williams Jan. i, 1890. He died Feb. 28, 1892, and 
Mrs. Williams, March 18, 1897, married Carl G. Gunder- 
son. 

8. iii. Martha Gates, born Oct. 25, 1868. She married 
Alden Fish Sept. 2"], 1900. 

8. iv. Abby Hortense, born March 5, 1873. Married 
Earl G. Batty Sept. 22. 1898. 

8. \-i. Luna Painter, born I"\'b. 17, 1876, married to Os- 
car E. Darling Nov. 14. 1896. 

7.' VI. James Palmer Gallup was horn Jan. 21, 1845. 

( )f him. as a soldier, there is this record. James P. 
Gallup entered the Union Arm\' in Janiiars'. 1 863, was in 
th<- P'irst Connecticut Cavalr\', i)i-camc ( )rder!y Sergeant. 



FRANCIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. 35. 

was in se\ernl battles, at Winchester among others, .md 
with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. He was in the 
hospital at Kearnston, Virginia, and died Dec. 10, 1864. 
Burial in Elm Grove Cemetery, Mystio Bridge, Connecti- 
cut. 

There are no doubt children in this line of the 9th gen- 
eration, but only the children and grandchildren of Desire 
Worthington Ball had been requested for this record. 



Mrs. Edgcombe says of Eli Ball, who was called Capt. 
Ball, "He owned the ferry between the two Springfields 
and also carried on the business of freighting on the Con- 
necticut River assisted by his sons. This business was 
probably established by his great-great-grandfather, Fran- 
cis Ball, the pioneer, and carried on successivel)' by his 
descendants." 

This freighting must have been quite a small business 
in 1648, when Francis Ball was drowned, but in the ne.xt 
hundred and fifty years, and from iSoo to 1837 it attained 
large proportions, as the goods for the upper towns were 
taken up in boats to Jedediah Day's landing and then 
were carted around "the Falls," where is now and has been 
for many years the great Holyoke dam. The writer of 
these records became familiar with that landing place in 
1835, (Mrs. Day was his grandmother's sister,) and with 
some legends and hunting stories of the generation be- 
fore him, when the present city of Holyoke was only "Old 
Fields," without houses or inhabitants, and he concludes 



36. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 

that the men of his line who are yet to be nametl ami those 
already mentioned, were active in various ways alonjj^ 
some twelve miles of that beautiful river, for fully two 
hundred and fifty years. Even yet the name of "Hog- 
pen Dingle," a noted place for wild game near that old 
Day lamling, has a peculiar charm tor his no iongery(ning 
ears. 

Mrs. Edgcombe also says: "In the ancient burying 
ground at West Springfield a fine monument of unique 
design, surmounted by a large ball suggestive of the name, 
was erected to the memory of the descendants of Erancis 
Ball, by William ami Henry Hall of New York, grandsons 
of Capt. Eli Hall." 

The following inscriptions are here given, but taken 
from the large monument in Agawam, once West .Spring- 
fieltl, to which Mrs. Edgcombe's words perhaps refer. 
Copied by Miss Ida Eerre of Agawam. 

FKOM THE BALL MONUMENT IN AGAWAM CEMETERY. 

Benjamin Hall 1689-1773. 

Moses " 1733-1810. 

Capt. Eli " 1764-1844. 

Eli '• Jr. 1789-1849. 

()r|)ha " 1793-1878. 

FROM OLD HEAD-STONES. 

Mrs, Lucy wife of Moses Hall, died June 20, 1807, ^U*^ 
94 



FRANCIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. 37. 

Lucy wife of Kli Ball, died April 20, 183.S. af^ed 65 

Cynthia dauj^jhter of Eli and Lucy Ball, was drowned 
Dec. 13, .1806, aged 16. 

Margaret daughter of Capt. F!li and Lucy Ball, died 
Aug. II, 1808, aged 2 yrs. i mo. 

Cynthia daughter of Capt. Eli and Lucy Ball died Dec. 
21, 1808, aged II months. 

The line of Benjamin Ball, who become a resident of 
the north parish of West Springfield in 1745, is now re- 
sumed through his second son, Charles. 

4. II. Charles Ball, born in 1725, was married to 
Ruth Miller in 1757, so far as records show. Mrs. Ruth 
Ball died in May, 1795, then 68 years of age. Charles 
Ball, too far advanced in life for a soldier in the war, was 
in 1777 one of the Selectmen of the town, at that time 52 
years of age. He died Oct. 12, 1795. 

Children: 

. 5. i. Ruth, born in 1758. It is said of her, by one who 
knew her, that she was "gay, lively, and cheerful in her 
disposition," but was an invalid, confined to her bed for 
twelve long years, and died in April, 1806, being 47 years 
of age. 

5. ii. Charles, born in 1760. 

5. iii. Heman, born in 1764. He graduated at Dart- 
mouth College in 1794, studied theology with Dr. Lathrop 
of West Springfield, became pastor of the Congregational 



38. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 

church in Rutland. Vermont, received in l8i6 the dejj^ree 
of Doctor of Divinity, was never married, and dietl, "uni- 
versally lamented," while sitting in his chair. Dec. iS, 
1821, only 57 years of age. 

5. II. Charles Hall, born 1760, is the only one 
through whom any of the descendants of the first Charles 
Hall are to be traced, and probably all of his descendants 
can now be named and numbered. Horn is what is now 
the town of Molyoke, nine years after the planting of the 
elm tree that was to become noted, he was married to 
Merab Miller June 3, 1787. 

Children: 

6. i. Charles, born April 28, 1788, died April 29. 1788. 
6. ii. Charles, born Oct. 14, 1789. 

6. iii. Francis, born March 5, 1792. 

6. iv. Hervey, born Oct. 16, 1794. 

6. V Merab, born Jan. 31. 1797. 

6. vi. Kdwin. born Aug. 2^, 1799, died Sept. 18. 1801. 

6. vii. Ruth, born Aug. 16, 1801, diitl Aug. 20, 1 803. 

6. viii. Ruth 2d, born April 10, 1804. died Nov. 2, 1814. 

6. i.\. Ivdwin lieman, born Aug. 19, 1809. 

The father of these nine children, known as Lieut. 
Charles liall, too young to become a Major or a Captain 
as did some of his kindred, nevertheless, before tin Revo- 
lutionary War closed became a soldier .uul was in the lat- 
ter part of his life a Pensioner of the Revolution. This is 
his record: Charles Hall was sergeant in Capt. John Car- 



FRANCIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. 



39- 



penter's Company. He enlisted April 26, 1780, and was 
discharged Dec. 27, 1780. In service 8 months on guard 
duty at Springfield. See "Soldiers of the Revolution." 
He was when discharged 20 years of age. According to 
the West Springfield Centennial, 1874, he was town Mod- 
erator in 1814, Representative at Boston, — "Lieut. Charles 
Ball, 1806, 08, 09, II, 12, 16, 20, 27," — nine times. 

He died July 3, 1838. Age 78 years. His wife died 
May 4, 1838. 

6. H. Charles Ball was married to Sarah Rowe 
Ashley, — (usually called Sally), her grandmother a mem- 
ber of the Rowe family, — Jan. 18, 1810. He died March 
16, i860. Among the "Selectmen" of West Springfield is 
the name "Charles Ball Jr. 1833, 34." Mrs. Ball, his 
wife, died Aug. 25, 1868. Age T'j years. 

Children: 

7. i. Charles Rowe, born Nov. 6, 1810. 
7. ii. Ruth Jeannette, born Dec. 8, 1813. 
7. iii. Harvey, born June 2, 1816. 

7. iv. Hiram, born June 2, 1816, died Oct. 5, 1846. 

7. V. William Leroy, born 182 1. 

7. vi. Sarah Pamelia, born 1823. 

7. vii. Caroline Victoria, born June 6, 1839. 

7. I. Charles Rowe Ball was married to Louisa 
Dunham Oct. 27, 1842. In 1837, then twenty-six years of 
age, he became a pioneer settler with his uncle Hervey 
Ball at the Red Cedar Lake in Indiana. He was for a 



40. WEST SPKIXGFIELD BALL FAMILY 

time a teacher in Porter Co., Indiana. After his marriage 
he became an larly settler and a farnier in Cook Co., 111., 
near Chicajjo. His land became valuable. He removed 
a short distance into the town of Norwood, made his home 
with i)nc of his sons, and ihirc ilicd April 5, 1900, in the 
QOth vear of his afje. 

Chililrcn: 

8. i. Charles, born Dec. 27, 1843. 

8. ii. Dunham, born Auj.,'. 25, 1845. Married a South- 
ern jifirl in Louisiana. Died Jan. 31, 1865. 
8. iii. J. Wesley, born Sept. 22, 1848. 
8. iv. Lcavitt. born May 31, 1853. 
8. v. D.i\ id Morris, born June 17, 1855. 
8. vi. Marcellus, born Jul\- 15. 1S62. 

8. Ill J. WVsk-y Hall was married to Willie S. l^rn- 
iamin of Lafayette, Ind. 

ChiUlren: 

9. i. Lillian, born in 1S74, died Sept. 5, 1878 at her 
grandfather's home in tin- town of Jefferson, 111. 

9. ii. Hell, born about 1878. 
9. iii. Hessie. born about 1880. 

While these two j.jirls were (juiti' younj^. about 1SS3, 
their mother died. 

The father and the ilauj,diters, the two {jfirls havinj^been 
educated in the Norwood schools, arc- now in Utah, where 
Hell Hall became a teacher. In her {^drlhood she wrote 
for a Chicaf^'o p.iper. 



FRANCIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. 4I. 



8. V. David M. Ball was married, May 26, 1880, to 
Laura E. Charboneau. 

Son: 

9. Arthur, born Oct. 4, 1881. 

D. M. Kail is a lawyer in the city of Chicago, and is 
coming into prominence in political life. 

8. VI. Marcellus Ball received a theological educa- 
tion. He was married in 189- to Mattie Lemon. He 
commenced preaching in the West. His wife died and 
his life was quite changed by her death. 

7. n. Ruth Jeannette Ball was married to Daniel 
Leavitt, (born Nov. 16, 1813,) Sept. 8, 1838. He died 
July 27, 1859, and his wife died Aug. 6, 1893, then nearly 
80 years of age. 

Children: 

8. i. Charles Daniel, born July 9, 1841. 
8. ii. Benning, born Aug. 23, 1843. 

8. iii. Olive, born Aug. 23, 1843. 

8. L Charles D. Leavitt married Louisa Upham Dec 
5, 1862. 

Daughter: 

9. i. Lilla Olive, born Sept. 23, 1863. Married to Leon 
Wood. 

8. H. B. Leavitt married Delia Hare Oct. 15, 1878. 



42 WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY 

Children: 

9- i. Ruth Jeannettc. born July 19. 1S83. 

9. ii. Charlotte Anna, born May 10. 1886. 

8. 111. Olive Leavitt was married, Sej^t. 30, 1861. to 
W'm. Dunbar. She was again married. Now 9, 1874, to 
Will Turner. 

7 111. Harvey Ball, of whom there is not much rec- 
ord, died several years ago anti was buried at Norwood 
near Chicago, where his oldest brother lived. He left a 
daughter, Ella Hall, who also died many years ago and 
left a daughter Emma Kroll, living in Michigan. 

7. \' William Leroy Hall, who lived and died on the 
old homestead, and was twice married. His first wife was 
Betsey Clapp, who died Nov. 7, 1870, then 39 years of age. 
The second was Jane Pomeroy, now living in Holyoke. 

7. \'l. Sarah Pamelia Hall was married to Samuel Al- 
lyn. She died April 3, 1866, leaving a daughter. 

8. i. Virginia I'amelia Allyn died Aug. 4. 1874 at the 
early age of 24 years. 

She had enjoyed the advantages which money confers 
of travel in foreign lantis, spent some time in Berlin, had 
a likeness taken there by the court photographer, which 
she afterwards gave to thi- writer of these records, (her 
mother, whom she then n presented, a \ ery gentlt- and 
delicate girl, having been one of his favorite playmates in 
1835.) and she returned from Europe to her native land 



FRANXIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. 43. 



and to the home location of Benjamin Ball in 1745, to see 
again her kindred and to die. Her mother's cousin writes 
for her memorial record, a noble girl. 

7. VII. Caroline Victoria Ball was married to Ilohrrt 
Philo Street, Nov. 18, i860. 

Children: 

8. i. Charles Philo, born July 21, 1861, died Nov. 24, 
1863. 

. 8. ii. Philo Williams, born Sept. 2"], 1865. 

8. iii. Robert Ashley, born Nov. 20, 1870, died Aug. 21, 
1872. 

8. II. Philo Williams Street, was married, April 1893, 
to Sarah A. Chalmers who died in May, 1893. In July, 
1894, he married Mrs. Sara N. Barber, whose maiden name 
was Payne. He is a physician, residing a few miles south 
of South Hadley Falls, the residence of his father and 
mother, in the state of Connecticut. Electric cars are 
now running from his mother's home through Holxoke, 
West Springfield, and Agawam, so that visits are easily e.\- 
changed. The Basin of the Connecticut Valley is not 
what it was in the Indian times of 1745; nor yet what it 
was in 1835. 

"The old order changeth." 

6. III. Francis Ball was married to Adah Smith of 
Conway, Mass. 

This family removed from West Springfield, Holyoke 
now, to Illinois in 1836 or 1837. Francis Ball died not 



44 WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 



far from Bloomin^'ton in October, 1838, and his wife Feb 
8. 1842. 

Children: 

7. i. Hephzibah, born . died in 1850. 

7. ii. Spencer, born , died 1890. 

7. iii. Merab, born April 12, 1827. 

7. iv. Rodolphus, born , died 1855. 

7 V. Francis, born Dec. 13, 1831. 

7. 1 Hephzibah Ball was married to Lewis Porter. 
Date not known. In 1849 they left Illinois for California 
where Mrs. H. Hall Porter died in 1S50, leaving two chil- 
dren, 8. i. Alvira. and 8. ii. Lewis. Concerning these no 
further information has reached their uncle PVancis l^all 
at Hloomington. As the Porter family went to California 
at a good time for getting gold, it is quite probable that 
Lewis Porter, Jun., or some of his descendants shared in 
the results of that early gold har\-est. 

7. IL S|)encer Hall married Jane Walthil Me lived 
for a time in Central Indiana, afterward, including 1858, in 
Missouri, and finally in Texas. 

Children: 

8. i. Nanni«', born June 4, 1856. 

8. ii. James Iv. horn Aug. 24, i860. 

8. iii. Walter K.. bc^n Sept. 22, 1864. 

8. iv. Isabell, born June 22. 1867. 

8. V. Ira. born June 22, 1867, died in the summer ol 

1877- 



FRANXIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. 



45- 



8. I. Nannie Ball married her cousin George S. Tar- 
mele about 1897. 

Children: 

9. i. Hoyt F., born Nov. 11, 1878. 
9. ii. Myrtle M.. Feb. 11, 1880. 

9. iii. Clarence S., July i, 1881. 

9. iv. Seth L., Dec. 11, 1882, died June 19, 1896. 

9. V. Edgar C, May 7, 1885. 

8. II. James F. Ball married Ella E. Reason about 
1883. 



Children: 

. Charley D., born July 20, 1884. 

i. Ethel, born Nov. 12, 1886. 

ii. Essie, born Aug. 7, 1889. 

V. Frank, born April 1 89 1. 

V. Mettie, born Aug. 5, 1892. 

vi. Jimmie. born Oct. 1897. 



8. III. Walter E. Ball married Virgie Armstrong, pro- 
bably in 1890. 

Children: 

9. i. Lena, born Oct. 1891. 

9. ii. Edith, born January 1893. 
9. iii. Essie, born Nov. 9, 1896. 
9. i\'. Margie, born Sept. 7, 1899. 

8. IV. Isabell Ball was married, probabl\' in 1886, to 
John Davis. She died in the s[)ring of 1889. 

9. i Daughter: Lela Davis, born Oct. 1887. 



46. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY 



; III Mcrab Hall was married. probabl>- in 1844, to 
Lucius Parmelc. who was born April 4, 1S18, and died 
April 7. 1902. She died Dec. i, 1894. 

Children: 

8. i. human H., born Jiil\- 29, 1845. 

8. ii. Adelaide M.. born May 7, 1848. 

8. iii. Clara H.. born July 19. 1851. 

8. iv. Geori^e S., born Ma\- 19, 1853. 

8. V. Emily S., born Now 8, 1855. 

8. vi. Almira. born Nov. 24, 1857, died Aui,'. 22, 1880. 

8. vii. Gilbert M., born July 25, 1859. died Au}.,^ 7, 1897. 

8. viii. Charles F.. born May 25. 1S62. 

8. i.\. Julia A., born Feb. 5. 1864. 

8. x. Lucius C, born April 6, 1866. 

8. xi. Rufus \\'.. born Oct. 3. 1869. 

.six sons and five dau}.jhters. 

There are no doubt many, in this line, of tin- ninth jj^en- 
eration. but it is impracticable to ^cl their names or num- 
ber for this record. Two of these grandsons of Francis 
Hall of Illinois are livin^^ in Oregon. George Parnulc and 
Lucius Farmele; and two of the granddaughters. Mrs. Ade- 
laide Sparks ami Mrs. Clara 1^ Wordel. are living in South 
Dakota; and they and the five- others, probably have 
several children. 

7 1\' 1-rancis Hall married Mary Jml\- who died June 
16. 1888. 



FRANCIS ball's DESCENDANTS. 47. 



Children: 



8. 
8. 
8. 
8. 



Mary C, born May 21, 1855, tlied Aug. 7, 1856. 
ii. Uavid T., born Oct. i, 1856, died July 28, 1886. 
iii. Lewis A., born April 14, 1858, died Oct. 25, 1861. 
ix. Henry W., born Feb. 28, 1873. Has been living 
in -Sioux City, Iowa. 

Mrs. Nancy C. Ball is the present wife of Francis Ball. 
Mrs. George S. Parmele, oldest child of Spencer Ball, 
lives in Johnson, Oregon. 

6. IV. Hervey Ball, born in 1794, was married to 
Jane Ayrault Horton of Agawam, born in 1804, only 
daughter of Dr. Timothy Horton, Nov. 11, 1824. He was 
a graduate of Middlebury College, Vermont, and she was 
carefully educated in the best schools of that day in Hart- 
ford, Connecticut. For some years after their marriage 
their home was in the county seat of Columbia county, 
Georgia, where he, known as Col. Hervey Ball, practiced 

law. 

After 1837 their home was in Lake county, Indiana, at 

the Red Cedar Lake. Hervey Ball had retired from the 
practice of law and had settled on a claim which after- 
wards became a farm, situated on the west side of a very 
beautiful lake, which in 1837 was wild, and very attractive, 
where the family became true pioneers, learning well the 
ways of pioneer life. In a few years H. Ball was elected 
to the office of judge, and bore the title of Judge Ball the 
remainder of his life. He died Oct. 13, 1S68. Mrs. J. A. 
H. Ball died Oct. 14, 1880. 



48. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY 



Children: 

7 i Timothy Horton. born in Agawam, Mass., at his 
grandfather's, Feb. i6, 1S26. 

7. ii. Elisabeth Hanmer. born in Georgia Aug.. 25, 1829. 

7, iii. Heman. born in Georgia, Jan. 15, 1832. 

7. iv. Charles, born April 15. 1834. at his grandfather's 
in Agawam. 

; \ Jami's Hervey. horn at his grandfather's in Aga- 
wam. Sept. 1 1, 1836. 

7 \i Mary Jane, bcm ,ti the Red Cedar Lake, Oct. 25, 

>839- 
7. vii. Henrietta, born Dec. 7, iS4i,at the Red Cedar 

Lake. 

For the home life of this family see "Lake of the Red 
Cedars" published at Crown Point, Indiana, in 1880. 

7. L T. H Hall was married April 19, 1855, to Mar- 
tha C. Creighton of Clarke county, Alabama, by her fath- 
er, Rev. Hiram Creighton. 

ChiUiren: 

8. i. Herbert Saurin, born at his grandfather's home at 
the Red Cedar Lake, July 6. 1856. He graduated at the 
Hennett Medical College of Chicago in 1884. 

8. ii. Georgietta I'Jhberta, was born in Newton Cen- 
ter. Massachusetts, Jan. i, 1861. She became a music 
teacher in early youth, and taught instrumental and vocal 



FRANCIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. 49. 

music for several years and was church organist. .She- 
was married, May 31, 1897, by her father, Rev. T. H. Ball, 
to Rev. I. Walter Martin of Clarke county, Alabama, then 
Baptist pastor in Kentucky. 

Children: 

9. i. Horton Cunningham, born Oct. 4, 1898, at the 
home of his grandfather in Crown Point. Indiana. 

9. ii. Muriel Creighton was born in Muncie. Indiana, in 
the parsonage. May 14, 1901. 

7. II. Elisabeth H. Ball was married by Rev. Norman 
Warriner of Papaw Grove, Illinois, July 27, 1854, to Judge 
Richard J. Woodard then a merchant of Clarke county, 
Alabama. 

In that county, in academic school work, in church and 
mission work, in all enterprises for good, Mrs. Woodard 
exerted a large influence to last beyond her generation. 
She was a good letter writer, skillful like her mother in 
using pen or pencil or paint brush, a successful teacher, an 
active Christian woman. She died Oct. 21, 1895. ^" *' 
notice of her death it was said: "In her children and 
grandchildren, in the Sunday school and church, in mis- 
sion work, and for long years in this world, though her 
name be forgotten, the influence of Mrs. E. H. Ball Wood- 
ard will live." 

Of many who pass away from us it may be truly said. 



;0. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY 



"The good begun by thee shall onward flow 
In many a branching stream and broader grow." 

Children: 

8. i. Marietta Hanmer, usually called Lillie, born 
April 4. 1856. 

8. ii. Eugenie Horton, born Dec. 2'j, 1857. 

8. iii. Charles Hervey, born Nov. 16, i860. 

8. iv. Adelaide Rivers, born March 28. 1863. 

These four born at Grove Hill. 

8. V. Carrie Eloise. born at her grandfather's home at 
Red Cedar Lake, Jan. 16, 1869. 

8. I .Marietta or Lillie H. Woodard was married at 
Grove Hill. Dec. 19. 1877. by Rev. T. II. Hall, to David 
Augustus Chapman, who was born near Grove Hill Oct. 
19. 1851. 

Children: 

9. i. Hattie Strother, born Oct. 10, 1878, died Jan. 30, 
1880. 

9. ii. Charles Rivers, born April 20, 1880. 

9. iii. Richard John, born I-Vb. 14, 1882. 

y. iv. Mary Kloise, born Oct. 29. 1887. 

9. v. David Augustus, born Oct. 20, iSgi, dii-d Ndv. 22, 
1891. 

All born at Grove Hill, Alabama, thi- famil\' now resitl- 
ing at Corsicana, Texas. 



FRANCIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. 5 I 



8. II. Eugenie Horton Woodard was married to Dr. 
Gross S. Chapman, by Rev. T. H. Rail, Nov. 26, 1879, at 
GroVe Hill. The home of Dr. Chapman is now at Jack- 
son, Alabama, where his children attend the Jackson Ag- 
ricultural College. His range of practice is extensive. 

Children: 

g. i. James Horton, born Nov. 5, 1881. 

9. ii. Leiland Woodard, born Jan. 2, 1884. 
9. iii. Jesse Pugh, born Sept. 26, 1885. 

9. iv. Helen Adelaide, born July 24, 1887, died when 
about seven years of age. An interesting, promising 
child. 

9. V. Frances Elisabeth, usually called Bessie, born 
Aug. 14. 1888. 

9. vi. Jeannette Ball, born Jan. 18, 1893. 

9. vii. Eugenie Ayrault, born July 17, 1896. 

8. III. Charles H. Woodward — having inserted one 
letter in his name, — became a resident of Brownwood, 
Texas in February, 1882. He married Mary Lita Martin, 
daughter of Caleb T. and Lucy W. Martin of Martinsburg, 
Mo., Sept. 25, 1887. 

He has been successful in business, is now in charge of 
telephone lines, having himself a system of 260 'phones 
and no miles of toll lines, besides being local agent for 
three other lines, these bringing him in a n(-t income of 
over S500 per month. 



5-- WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 



Children: 

Q. i. Lucille Elizabeth, born Oct. 15, 18S8. 
9. ii. Lucy Tinsley, born Aug. 23, 1890. 
9. iii. Marie Adine. born Jan. 12. 1S93. 

These three girls arc now receiving their education in 
the Baptist College at Brownwood, near which is their 
pleasant city residence. 

6. ]\' Adelaide Rivers Woodard was married to Ar- 
thur Bethea Miller Oct. 26. 1881. Their home isat Alvin. 
Texas, and they were among the sufferers in the great 
Galveston flood. 

Children: 

9. i. Charles Bcthca. born Aug. 2. 1882. died Sept. 14, 
1884. 

9. ii. Georgietta Eloise. born Dec. 6, 1884. 
9. iii. Mary Grey, born Sept. 8, 1887. 
9. iv. Murray Woodard. born June 27, 1890. 
9. V James Harold Ii., born March 9, 1893. 
9. \ i. Lucius Vernon, born Sept. 30, 1895. 
9. vii. Horton Chapman, born Jan. 16, 1898. 
9. viii. Roy Kverett, born Jan. iC. 1902. 
9. X. Ruth Kvelyn, born Jan. 16, 1902. 

8. V. Carrie Eloise, Woodard was married IJcc. 19. 
1888 to Dr. Samuel Robert Bonner of Camden, Alabama. 
Ilr died Dec, 24. 1890. She married Feb. I, 1893, William 
Andrew Carter. No children. 



FRANXIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. 53. 

7. III. licnian Ball when fourteen years of :v^v be- 
i^Rn to suffer with an affliction in his eyes which proved 
to be incurable, and then his lungs became dise<ised. He 
had much bodily suffering but a triumphant spirit, and 
died on Monday, Aug. 27, 1854. twenty-two years of age. 
A sketch of his life can be found in the "Lake of the Red 
Cedars." 

7. IV. Charles Ball having been a college student, be- 
came a soldier in the Union Army in 1863, was Second 
Lieutenant and Sergeant-Major of the 12th Indiana Caval- 
ry, passed through the dangers of war, returned home on 
sick furlough, and died on Sept. 12, 1865. Memorials of 
him as a Christian soldier are in "Lake of the Red Cedars,'' 
pages 163, 164, and elsewhere. These statements are 
quoted: 

"In his regiment he had been recognized distinctly 
as a Christian. Amid the temptations and perils of a sol- 
dier's life * * * he had preserved his character unsullied, 
had maintained his principles inviolate; and with the pure- 
ness of his unstained boyhood, with the refined delicacy 
of his sensitive nature, all unchanged, he was pri\ileged 
to enter upon his last sleep sharing the fulness of a moth- 
er's and a sister's love." 

"The burial was masonic and military." 

"The citizens of Crown Point were very kind and atten- 
tive to the wants of the family in this their great grief." 

7. V. James Hervey Ball was married to Miss Harrie 
Bridgeman of Chicago, Sept. i, 1880. 



54- WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 



Dauf^hter: 
8. i. Edith Klisabcth. born June i6, and died Aivj^. 14. 
1881. 
The mother followed the child in a few short weeks. 

James H. Hall is now a lawyer and Proi^ate Jud<je in 
Scott. Scott county. Kansas. He graduated at the Law 
School of the University of Chicago in one of its earlier 
classes, 1S71. 

7. \'l Mary jaiu- Hall was married to Dr. Aiulnw .S. 
Cutler at the Lake home, Dec. 16, 1869, just at the close 
of its occupancy b\' the Ball famil\-. They reside at Kan- 
kakee. 111. They have no children. Mrs. Cutler gradu- 
ated from the Ladoga Female Seminar\-. She is skilled 
in using |)en and pencil. 

7. \'ll Henrietta liall graduated at the Indianapolis 
Female Institute in June, 1S61, returneil to her home in 
Lake county, spent some time in teaching, and tlied Jan. 
2/, 1863. Her memorial is in the "Lake of the Red Ced- 
ars. 

The se\en children ot Judge Hall were all educated. 
largely at home. fi\'e of tlu-m sharing the achantages of- 
fered b)- institutions of learning which were accessible, 
and si.x of them were teachers in schools and academies 
in Intliana and Alabama. The grandchildren ha\«.- had 
many advantages and all si-ek lh<- cultixation character- 
izing their immediate ancestors. 



FRANCIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. 55. 



For the sake of quite a number whom it will interest the 
Huguenot line of the Judge Ball family is here inserted. 

Mrs. Jane Ayrault H. Ball was the daughter of Mrs. 
Elisabeth Horton who was born in 1769 and who died in 
1846, who was the daughter of Mrs. Elisabeth Ayrault 
Hanmer, born in 1749, dying in 1837, who was the daughter 
of Peter Ayrault, born in 1702, who was the son of Dr. 
Nicholas Ayrault, born in 1656, a Huguenot refugee, who 
came, (probably) from Rochelle, about 1686, affer the 
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, to Providence, Rhode 
Island, where he married Marian Breton, the daughter of 
a prosperous merchant from the south of PVance. The 
Ayrault wedding ring descends to the oldest daughter of 
each generation, and has passed through the hands of Eli- 
sabeth Ayrault, Elisabeth Hanmer, Jane Ayrault Horton. 
Elisabeth Hanmer Ball, and Marietta Hanmer Woodard, 
and is now the property of Mary Eloise Chapman of Cor- 
sicana, Texas. 



6. V. Merab Ball was married to Warren Chapin of 
Holyoke who was born June 26, 1788 and died June 8, 
1870. Date of marriage about 1822. Merab Ball Chapin 
died Feb. 5, 1832. 

The marriage of Warren Chapin to Betsey Ball, also 
called Elizabeth Ball in the Chapin record, has been al- 
readv mentioned among the descendants of Moses and of 



;8. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY 



hii Hail. Page 31 had been printed but a few hours when 
the Chapin record reached Crown Point. The more full 
record will therefore be given here. 

Children: 

7. i. Mary, born 1S24, died unmarried, jul\- 6, 1859. 

7. ii. Jane, born about 1826, died unmarried Oct. 29, 
1898. 

7. iii. Asahel, born in 1829, died in Nov. 1883. 

7. iv. Warren, born in 1832, died July 3. 1902. 



7. V. Son of Betsey or Elizabeth Ball Chai)in: Henry 
Judson. born about 1835, '^''t'd Sept. 1895. 

7. III. Asahel Chapin was a clerk in New York City 
in 1851. and there met with his cousin, Elisabeth H. liall. 
from Red Cedar Lake, then \isiting at the home of her 
mother's brother, H. H. Morton, a city merchant; and by 
her he was introduced to her cousin, Louise Jane Horton. 
whom he married about 1854; and, in the course of years, 
became, with his brother Warren, a larj.je hinihcr deaUr in 
the city of N< \v \'()rk. the firm, in the years includin}.,^ 
1870, doing a large amount of l)usin(ss. 

Chiltlren: 

8. i. Lillian Louise, born in May, 1856. 
8. ii. Horton Ayrault, born Aug. 6, i860. 
8. iii. Asahel, born July 2, 1867. 



FRANCIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. 57- 

8. I. Lillian Louise Chapin was married in April, 1886, 
to James Stratton Carpenter, M. D. of Pottsville, Pa. 

Children: 

9. i. James Stratton, born in 1887. 
9. ii. Chapin, born 1889. 

9. iii. Gertrude born and died in infancy. 
9. iv. Lillian. 

8. IL Horton A. Chapin married Oct. 30, 1888, Maud 
Cheever Allen. They reside in Oradell, N. J. 

Children: 

9. i. Horton Ayrault, born Nov. 27, 1890, died in July 
1891. 

9. ii. Helen Tudor, born Oct. 19, 1891. 

8. HL Asahel Chapin married June 25, 1902, Laura 
Elizabeth Shultz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton M. 
Shultz, of the city of New York. They also will reside at 
Oradell, New Jersey. 

As the name Ayrault indicates, the descendants of Asa- 
hel Chapin trace back one line through Louise Jane Hor- 
ton, as do the Judge Ball family, to Dr. Nicholas and Mari- 
an Ayrault the Huguenots. Also an untraced line is 
claimed back to the Tudors. 

7. IV. Warren Chapin, whose late residence was in 
Tarrytown, N. Y., married Harriet Sisson. Son. 8. War- 
ren Blanchard, born in i860. 



58. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY 

8. Warren Hlanchard Chapin, M. D., residing at 52 
West 104th Street. N. Y., married Madeline . 

Children: 

9. i. Josephine, born 1886. 9. ii. Madeline. 9. iii. 
W.irren. 9. \v. Reginald. 9. v. Godfrey. 

7. V. Henry Judson Chapin, whose home was at 
Montclair. N. J., married Kli/.abeth A. Christ\-. 

Children: 

8. i. Henry Judson, born July 1868. 

8. ii. Thomas Christy, born Nov. 1871. 

8. iii. Warren Winthrop. born May 25, 1875. 

8. iv. Mabel Elizabeth, born May 2, 1877. 

8 I Henry Judson Chapin, residing in New York 
City, married, April 19, 1897, Harriet T. Wilson. Daugh- 
ter: 9. Julia, born May, 1898. 

8' II Thomas Christy Chapin. residing in Hoston, 
Mass., married Annie Howard, June 9, 1899. 

Children: 

9. i. Ruth, b(jrn in A|)ril. 1900. 

9. ii. li.irbara. i)orn in January, 1902. 

8. IV. Mabel K. Chapin was married April 11, 1900, 
to William Hardy Kshbaugh. They reside at Montclair, 
New Jersey. Daughter. 9. Elizabeth, born in March 
1902. 



FRANCIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. 59. 

6. IX. Edwin Heman Ball, youngest child of Lieut. 
Charles Ball, born in 1809, remained with his father and 
mother till their death in 1838, and inht,rited the home- 
stead where his great grandfather, lienjamin Ball, had 
settled in 1745, and where was the great elm tree of the 
north parish, on the old stage road from Northampton to 
Hartford, on which, once much travelled road, on a high 
hill and a broad one, nine miles south, was the residence 
of Dr. Timothy Horton, a contemporary of Lieut. Charles 
Ball and, like him, sometimes one of the Selectmen, Rep- 
resentative in 1807, 1810, and 181 1, and delegate to the 
Constitutional Convention in 1820. [Perhaps the writer 
of this, now 76 years of age, may be excused for saying, 
that over this nine miles of road, uniting the homes of his 
two grandfathers, he when a child delighted to travel. It 
is certainly one of the beautiful portions of New England, 
in the very "Basin" of the Connecticut River Valley. 
And the writer of this has seen the river flow out from 
Connecticut Lake, and has followed its windings through 
the "intervals" or narrow valley, for many a mile west- 
ward and southward.] 

The town of Holyoke was formed, the city of Holyoke 
came into existence, and Edwin Heman Ball became quite 
wealthy. He was Representative in 1838. He was known 
in his later life as Col. Ball of Holyoke. He was married 
to Phoebe Frink, a daughter of one of the leading men of 
that parish, Jan. 1. 1830. 



60. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 

Children: 

7. i. Helen Sophia, born Oct. 4. 1S30. 

7. ii. Infant son, born Feb. 15, died March 22, 1832. 

7. iii. Edwin Heman, Jun., born Dec. 9, 1833. He grad- 
uated as a ph\sician. His health failed. He \isited at 
Judge Ball's at the Red Cedar Lake, on his way to Texas, 
hoping there to recover his health, and died March 30, 
1856. He was a promising young man. 

7. iv. James Rowe, born Jan. 2?>, 1836. 
He has never married. He holds the old Henjamin l^all 
homestead. Is reputed to be quite wealthy. 
7. V. Alici- !•! valine, born June 17, 1S40. 

Mrs. Phoebe Hall, who was born April 13. 1808, died 
March 30. 1842. 

As the then yoiuig Alice and the h(^me needed a moth- 
er's care, Kdwin H. Hall married, Jiil\- 14, 1S42. Kur\-(lice 
Kly of the s.ime i)arish, who pru\cd to be .m excelKiit 
mother and a noble woman. 

Children continued: 

7. vi. Jube Hrnrw bom .March 22. 1843. 
7. vii. I-'rancis W'ayland, born April 29, 1847. 
7. viii. Lucy Merab. born March 3, 1849, ''"''' J"^' 'O. 
1850. 
7. ix. Charles Kly, born Feb. 21, 1852. 
7. X. Gilman Kimball, born April 29, 1854. 



FRANCIS ball's DESCENDANTS. 6l. 

Col. E. II. Ball died Jan. 9, 1899, ncarl\- 80 years of age. 
In church relationship he was a Baptist, as are (|uiu- 
largely the other members of the West Springfield fam- 
ily. 

7. I. Helen S. Ball was married to James F. AlK-n of 
Holyoke, Jan. I, 1852. 

Children: 

8. i. William James, born Nov. 24, 1852, died Jan. 14, 
1902. 

8. ii. Edwin Heman, born July 23, 1856. 

8. iii. James, born March 20, 1858, died Oct. 16. i860. 

8. iv. Nellie Eurydice, born Nov. 26, i860, died June' 30, 
1872. 

8. V. Infant son, born July 9. and died July 19, 1863. 
8. vi. Charles Oilman, born Nov. 12, 1865. 
8. vii. David Fowler, born Sept. 18, 1872. 

8. I. William James Allyn, oldest grandson of Col. 
Ball, was married to Miss Katie M. Beck, March 19. 1873. 
She died Jan. 10, 1874. 

A REMINISCENCE. Genealogy, dry as it is often consid- 
ered, may yet in its records admit of brief views into life, 
even as the Bible genealogies give sometimes large pic- 
tures in a few words. The following is condensed from a 
"Prairie Voice" editorial, called "A Glance into Real Life." 

In the early fall of 1872 three young ladies, each about 
twenty years of age, each possessing more than ordinary 
talents and attractions, met at the home of Mrs. Ball in 



62. WEST SPRINGFIELD HALL FAMILY. 



Crown Point. They were Miss Alice Grant ami Miss 
Katie Beck of Chicago, who were Mrs. Ball's guests for 
some time, and Miss Mary Marsh, a sister of Prof. Marsh 
of Yale College, who became one of Mrs. Ball's particular 
young friends, and who at her home formed the acquaint- 
ance of the other two. A pleasant acquaintance this 
seemed to be for all in that glorious autumn time, .iiul 
then they separated, these three representative young 
maidens, to meet no more. Miss Grant was an Episco- 
palian. Miss Marsh a Presbyterian, and Miss Beck a Bap- 
tist. Miss Beck's father and mother were not living, she 
was in independent circumstances, and the three before 
they separated talked of their various jjlans for a few 
months of travel. One soon went to Kansas, one to Cali- 
fornia and then to New Haven, and Miss Beck returned 
to Chicago, and, as the record above shows was married 
in March of 1873. Soon she "entered as a new daughter 
a luxuriant NV-w England home in the city of Ilolyoke, a 
home into which she had glanced some three years before 
when as a girl of seventeen, fresh from the prairies of the 
West, as the guest of Col. Iv H. Hall of Holyoke, she had 
made with his family a pleasant trip to the sea-side and 
to Martha's Vineyard." With them was Nellie p:urydice 
Allyn, and richly those two girls iiijoyed that summer. 
knowing nothing of life's future as it uouUl open before 
them. The record above shows when the life of each, in 
this world, terminated. 



FRANCIS ball's DESCENDANTS. 63. 

Some time afterward there came to Mrs. Ball at Crown 
Point some cards and some cake and the tidings that her 
friend, Miss Mary Marsh, was then on the Atlantic for a 
bridal tour in Europe. Here must this reminiscence end. 

7. V. Alice E. Ball was married to Dr. Charles O. 
Carpenter, a son of Rev. Mark Carpenter and a brother of 
Rev. Dr. Chapin Carpenter a noted missionary in India 
and Japan, March 20, 1S61. Dr. Carpenter was born in 
August, 1838, and has but recently died, March 7, 1902. 
The Holyoke Transcript says: "Dr. Carpenter stood at 
the head of his profession." 

Children: 

8. i. Kate Alice, born Oct. 29, 1866, died Aug. 23, 1867. 
8. ii. Mark B.. born Dec. 16, 1869. 

8. iii. Alice Maud, born Oct. 19, 1871. 
8. iv. Helen Katherine, born Sept. 30, 1873, died March 
30, 1886. 

7. VI. Jube H. Ball was married Nov. 20, 1867 to 
Missouri Ellen Beck who was born in Bethel, Ohio, July 
12, 1844, daughter of Oliver and Jemina (South) Beck and 
sister of Katie M. Beck of Chicago. 

Children: 

8. i. Edwin Heman, born in Vinton, Iowa, Sept. 22, 
1868. 

8. ii. Katie Adelia, born July 7, 1870. 

8. iii. William Henry, born in Park Ridge, 111., Feb. 2, 

1875- 



64 WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY 

8. iv. James Rovvc, born in Chicago, Aug. i. 1879. 

Mrs. M. E. Hall died Oct. _m. 1882. Juhc H. Ball was 
married. Nov. 19. 1885. to Mrs. Adaline C. Allbright. 
daughter of Heman and Jane (West) Smith, born in Dela- 
ware, Wisconsin. Feb. 5. 1851. 

Children: 

8 \- Jube Heman, born May i^, 1888 at Vinton, Iowa, 
the present residence of the family. 

8. vi. Charles Francis, born XyxW 25, 1892, died March 
7. 1895. 

8. I. Edwin II. Hall was married in March, 1892, to 
to Luela Lee who died in Oct. 1893, and in May, 1889, he 
married Mrs. Laura Smith Harris of Tennessee. 

Children: 

9 i. William Li\ingston, born May 24, 1900. 

9. ii. Ely Chesly, born Aug. 10, 1901. 

8. II. K.ilu A. Hall was married, in juiu-, 1900. to 
Albert J. Gallaher of Jefferson, Iowa. 

9. i. Son: Hurell Li\'ingston, horn April i"^, 1901. 

7. V'll. Francis Wayland Ball married Anna Wilbur 
in 1867. 

Children: 

8. i. Francis Wayland, born Jan. i, 1868. Married to 
Gertrude Kent. No children. 



FRANCIS ball's DESCENDANTS. 65. 

8. II. Frederick Taylor, born June 5, 1870. Married 
Effie Fowle, May 1897. 

Children: 

9. i. Florence Mildren, born March 30. 1898. 

9. ii. Almena Frances, usually called Marian Ball. 

8. III. Eurydice Ely, named after her grandmother 
Ball, born Nov. 24, 1871. 

Eurydice E. Ball was married, probably in 1892, to Fred 
Leining of Holyoke. 

Daughter: 

9. i. Eloise Eurydice, born June 21, 1893. 

7. I. Charles E. Ball was married in 1873 to Elvira F- 
Whiting of Holyoke. He has what is considered to be 
one of the most complete drugstores in the United States. 

Children: 

8. i. Charles Whiting, born June 29, 1874. 

8. ii. James Rutherford, born Feb. 26, 1876, died Aug. 
12, 1878. 

8. iii. George Treadwell, born May 14, 1878. 

8. iv. Harriet Elizabeth, born Dec. 5, 1879. 

8. v. Benjamin, born April 13, 1881, died Feb. 10, 1883. 

8. vi. Elvira Louise, born Aug. 20, 1884. 

8. I. Charles W. Ball married, March 12, 1895, ^^'a 
May Crane who was born Oct. 30, 1873. 



66. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY 



Children: 

g. 1 Alice Crane, born April S, 1S96. 

g. ii. El\ ira Gertrude, born April 20, 1S97. 

9. iii. Charles Griswold, born Dec. 2, 1898. 

7. X. Gilman Kimball Hall was married Dec. 20, 1877, 
to Emma Missouri Kennedy, daughter of Andrew and 
Laura (Warner) Kennedy, born in Richmond. lll.,Jul\' 27. 

1854. 

Children: 

8. i. Gilman Kimball Jun.. born Auj^. 30, 1879, at 
Pleasant Ridge, Nebraska. 

8. ii. Henjamin Charles, born Jan. 2. 188 1. 

8. iii. Emma Ruth, born at Vinton, Iowa, Nov. 20, 1889. 

Mrs. Hall, the mother, dietl June 22, 1898. ( )ne son ii'- 
mains at Vintt^n, the other with his sister returned to their 
father's birth place at Holyoke, and the father, G. K. Hall, 
ha\ing sold his Iowa farm, went to the far Wi'st. 



FRANCIS ball's DESCENDANTS. 6/. 



SPECIAL FEATURES IN ONE LINE. 

Benjamin l>all, first settler of the Balls in Holyoke, was 
the grandson of Francis Ball and grandfather of Lient. 
Charles Ball who was the grandfather of T. H. Ball whose 
grandson is Horton C. Martin. Starting with the last 
grandson, born Oct. 4, 1898, there are fonr graiidtathers 
up to Francis Ball who died Oct. 3, 1648. There are just 
250 years between the death of the first of the four grand- 
fathers and the birth of the last of the four grandsons. 
One half of this period, 125 years, comes in between the 
death of the first grandfather, Francis, and the death of 
the grandson, Benjamin. Between the death of this sec- 
ond grandfather and the second grandson the intexral of 
65 N'ears intervenes. From the time of the death of the 
third grandfather until now the number of years is 64 and 
the fourth grandfather and fourth grandson are both living, 
the latter lu-arly four years of age. This |)eriod of 250 
years includes the life periods of only six generations, 
which gives 40 years in this line for a generation. 

That it is quite impossible now, 260 years after 
the settlement of Francis Ball in Springfield — there was 
no West Springfield till 1774 — , to gather up every Ball 
name and fix its position in the genealogical line, is e\i- 
dent; for even in 1707 two names are found, Lt'st Ball and 
Martha Ball, the latter about that time married to lienja- 
min Stebbins, neither of which names has a place in the 
F"rancis Ball genealogy. But there have now been named, 



68. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 

with a large amount of certainty, nearl\' all the descend- 
ants, living and dead, of Charles Ball, born in 1725, a 
great grandson of Francis Ball of 1640. Yet in the two 
generations between these, descendants of Capt. Jonathan 
Ball, who lacked four years of being a centenarian, and 
descendants even of Benjamin Ball, the first Ball settler 
in Holyoke, as the reader has seen, untraced lines branch 
off, and as yet, no one person can name or number the 
American descendants of some, surel\'. worthy English- 
man who was the father of our ancestor, Francis. Per- 
haps his name was William, although that does not seem 
to ha\e been a family name; perhaps an English ances- 
tor was John, but that does not seem to be a family name 
in the line of Francis, even if one brother was named John; 
and yet John is evidently a Ball name, seventeen John 
Balls having been soldiers in the Revolutionary War, and 
one noted John Ball, a Puriton divine, quite a voluminous 
writer, was born in England in 1585, who died in 1640, 
"deserving," says Baxter, "as high esteem as any bishop 
in England," and another noted John Ball lived more than 
five hundred years ago, mentioned with hoin)r by Froude 
in his "Annals of an English Abbey," and of whom Maur- 
ice of England says, "This remarkable man was the mov- 
ing spring in the insurrection of 1381," preaching, as he 
did, to thousands at a time on "the brotherhood of man- 
kind." 

It seems as though some of I*Vancis Ball's descendants 
ought tf) ha\(' been named John. 



FRANCIS ball's DESCENDANTS. 6g. 



We of the West Springfield family of Balls, having a 
certain record that takes us back two hundred and sixty 
years, to the shores of what was then stormy England, 
ought to make search for an English line of ancestry to 
take us back two hundred and forty more years to Kent 
or Canterbury, the home of the earliest Ball family of 
which this writer has found any record. 

Remarks. The thoughtful philosophic reader, in look- 
ing over genealogies, will be likely to notice how mar- 
riages, connecting different family lines, influence in dif- 
ferent ways a branch of the main line. 

In this West Springfield family, starting from Francis 
Ball and Abigail Burt, there soon came into the line two 
women, Ruth Miller and Merab Miller, both with Bible 
names. And as "Ruth the Moabitess" made quite a 
change in the Bible Messianie line, so these two members 
of the Miller family gave some change to the succeeding 
generations in the Ball family. Only a few years ago 
some definite knowledge could have been gained concern- 
ing what the writer of this believes to have been the na- 
ture of that change; but those possessing that knowledge 
have now passed from the earth. 

Of the Miller family there were in 1707 Samuel Miller 
Sen., Samuel Miller Jun., John Miller, and Ebenezer Mil- 
ler; and in 1756 Capt. Joseph Miller was member of a 
committee for presenting a petition to the General Court 
of Massachusetts Bay requesting that their parish be made 



70. WEST SPRINGFIELD liALL FAMILV. 



a town. It Seems probable that Ruth Miller, married in 
1757. was a daughter or sister oi Capt. Jose[)h Miller. 

The father of Merab Miller was John Miller, but as she 
was born about 1760, the John Miller who was twenty-one 
years of ajje in 1707 could not probably have been her 
father. Of this early Miller family she was probabl\' a 
member. In 1S35 the old Miller home was near the base 
of Mt. Ttim. 

A few other illustrations are these: Amon^" the de- 
scendants of Hervey Hall the Hu}.juenot blood of Jane 
Ayrault, influenced by the Kn^^dish Horton ind llaniiuT 
lines, has made its impress stronjj and full; as along with 
that blood there seem to go entlurance, intelligence, artis- 
tic capability, and strong principle; and the two Lucys, 
Luc\' King and Lucy Worthington, both of West Spring- 
field, left their impress on the descendants of Moses Hall 
and Capt. l.li Hall. Then, when Desire Worthington Hall 
married the "Scholar," Palmer Gallup, it is natural that 
one i)i her daughters shoultl be- the literary .iiul talented 
Mrs. Samuel Kdgcombe of Mystic. 

lVrha|)s the writer of these records may be excused for 
adding that among the- man\' wonun wlu) ijuite recently 
have come into the Hall line, Martha C. Creightoii, dis- 
tinctly of Scotch andScotch-Irish descent, and of .Soutlu rn 
birth, has had much to do in shaping lite lor two children 
and two grandchildren, and perhaps her iidluence will ex- 
lend to \el other generations. 

The difference in the growth or spri-ad of families is 



FRANCIS ball's DESCENDANTS. 7I. 



singular. While the living descendants of Ailing Hall, it 
is claimed, now number thousands, those of Francis Hall, 
so far as at present traced, number only about 170. 

And of these, among the descendants of the four broth- 
ers, Charles, Francis, Hervey, and Edwin Heman, of thi' 
sixth generation, there are few boys by the name of Hall. 
Of the descendants of Norman Hall of the sixth genera- 
tion, the oldest of fourteen children of Capt. Eli Ball, thf 
same is true. There are in these five families a few un- 
married young men, and we ought to all hope that, in this 
line, the Ball name may not in future generations become 
extinct. 

ADDENDUM. 

Some items of interest have lately been received (July 
16, 1902) from the research of a kind and very obliging Hol- 
yoke cousin. Miss H. Elizabeth Hall, which items are in- 
serted here. From this research it appears that the gr.int 
of land mentioned on page 22 was made Nov. 21, 1701, 
and that it consisted of twenty-acres, and the writer adds 
that undoubtedly this same land is now held by James 
Rowe Ball of Holyoke. The land is described as "lying 
near the Great Falls." From the wording of the grant it 
appears that Jonathan Hall was then in jwssession of some 
land in that locality. 

Another of these items states, which corroborates the 
inference in Suggestion 2, page 20, that Francis Ball when 
he came to Springfield purchased improvements on a lot 



72. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY 

which became his own, which the Munn heirs wished to 
get from the Ball heirs; and the question was settled 
in court by Mrs. Stebbins' testimony, Feb. 12, 1690, when 
she was about 67 years of age. And, further, that some 
of the Ball land was purchased by the town for the first 
cemetery. On the land which Francis Ball first held 
were standing in 189S the Chicopee bank building, the 
Hampden county-house, and the Elm Street Grammar 
School building. It also appears from these late research- 
es that Francis Ball was one of twenty four subscribers to 
a fund for purchasing land from the Indians for the plan- 
tation of Springfield. And that he was an influential citi- 
zen would appear from the fact that in 1645 ^^ ^^^ "<^" 
the committee to view Long Meadow in preparation for 
future division," and from the fact that in 1647 ^^ was 
chosen at the February town meeting as one of the town 
surveyors. 

October 3d of the next year his life suddenly ended on 
the anniversary day of his marriage four years before. 

Some new or additional particulars appear, as the result 
of this research, in regard to Jonathan Ball. lie was born 
at midnight, between the 6th day and 7th of October, 
1645. ^^'^ ^''st wife was Sarah Miller, daughter of Thom- 
as Miller. They were married March 13. 1673. She died 
Aug. 29, 16S3. .She was the mother of Sarah, born in 
1673, who died in 1676; of Margaret who was born and 
who died in October, 1675; of Thomas, who died in the 



FRANCIS ball's DESCENDANTS. 73. 



year of his birth; of a second Sarah, who was born and 
who died in 1678; of Samuel, born 1680; and of two Jona- 
thans who died in childhood. The children of the second 
wife were: Sarah, born in 1686, Francis, 16S7, Benjamin, 
1689, Jonathan, 1692, and Joseph, 1695. Samuel Ball mar- 
ried Margaret Jones, and atter her death Ruth Soley. 
Francis Ball married Sarah Leonard, daughter of John 
Leonard. Benjamin Ball, born April 19, 1689, married 
Sarah Ferry. Written in Agawam Ferre. (This item adds 
much to the record on page 26.) 

Jonathan, not the one born in 1683, but the one born in 
1692, married Elizabeth Old. Joseph married Mercy Mae 
Crann}'. 

This last research has added another name to the chil- 
dren of Samuel Ball on page 22. His children as now 
given were: Mary, born in 1673, who married John Hitch- 
cock; Francis, born in 1675, who married Martha Biach. 
man; Elizabeth, born in 1677, who married Nathaniel 
Sikes; Mercy, born in 1679, who died in 1683; ^^"^1 Abigail, 
who became the wife and not mother of Moses Parsons. 

Other items of interest are these: "Dec. 23, 1659 Jona- 
than and Samuel Ball were assigned seats in the church." 
One of these boys was then fourteen and the other twelve 
years of age. They were taught to attend church. 

"April 28, 1693, Jonathan Ball was on the committee 
with Major Pyncheon and others to settle the boundary 
line between Northampton and Springfield." 



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74- WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY 



Many thanks for these valuable items the author here 
returns to his fair Holyoke cousin; and also thanks 
to her sister. Miss Elvira Louise Ball, for the measure- 
ments of the Ball elm tree. 

Anoter inscription has been received from Miss Ida H. 
Ferre of Agawam, who is herself a great granddaughter 
of Mrs. Klizabeth A>Tault llanmer. and so a cousin 
to those of the Ayrault-Hanmer line. The inscription 
which she found on the stone in the West Springfield cem- 
etery reads: "in memory of Francis l^all who died Oct. 
21, 1757, in the 71st \-ear of his age." This was evidently 
that Francis born in 1687. This cemetery, "the old first," 
was "begun about 1700." 

Of course then, the body of the first Francis was buried 
on the east side of the river. "Cousin Ida" sends also the 
name of Charlotte Ball LePard, of New York, now living, 
quite evidently another descendant of Eli Ball Jun. 
The inscrii)tion above was copied July 13. 1902. 



FRANCIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. 75. 



INDEX. 

A complete index for this book is not here desif^ned. 
Too much time would be required to make out a full one. 
and so a few names only will be inserted here to be of 
slight aid in finding different lines. Of given names the 
only truly Ball name is Francis. Jonathan, repeated more 
than once, is evidently a Burt name, and Charles, also 
several times repeated, proves nothing as to any English 
Charles. Other names besides Ball in these records are 
the following: Allyn, pages 42, 61, Baker 34, Batty 34, 
Carpenter 57, 63, Chapman 50, 51, Carter 52. Cutler 54, 
Chapin 55, Darling 34, Davis 45, Edgcombe 34, Eshbaugh 
58, Fish 33, Gallup 32, Gallaher 64, Gunderson 34, Leavitt 
41, Leining 65, Martin 49, Miller 52, Porter 44, Parmele 
45, 46, Street 43, Sparks 46, Watrous 33, Williams 34, 
VVordel 46, Woodard 49, Woodward 51. 

Some of the Ball names are: Francis 15, Jonathan 20. 
Samuel 22, Jonathan 24, Benjamin 26, Noah 27, Moses 27, 
Eli 27, Norman 29, Charles 37, Charles 38, Charles 39, 
Charles R. 39, Francis 43, Spencer 44, Hervey 47, Edwin 
Heman 59. Six Balls supposed to be brothers are named 
in the Introduction. 

For Ayrault Huguenot line see page 55. 



76. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 



The following poem, from which a few lines have been 
quoted, is here inserted with the belief that it is not famil- 
iar to many of my kindred, and that at least my young 
cousins will appreciate it, and will love yet more the noble 
river on whose banks their first American ancestor settled 
and in the beautiful valley of which many of them yet re- 
side. 

I may add, for my Southern and Western kindred, that 
having bathed in the waters of the Mississipj)!, the 
Tombigbee, the Chattahoochie. the Potomac, and nian\' 
less noted streams and in sunny lakes, there are no other 
American streams so dear to me as the Agawam and the 
Connecticut. T. 1 1. H. 

CONiNECTICUT RIVER. 
(hrainerd.) 

From that lone lake, the sweetest of the chain 

That links the mountain to the mighty main. 

Fresh from the rock, and welling by the tree, 

Rushing to meet, and dare, and breast, the sea — 

h^iir. noble, glorious river! in thy wave 

The sunniest slopes and sweetest pastures lave; 

The mountain torrent, with its wintry roar. 

Springs from its home and leaps upon thy shore; 

The promontories love thee — and for this 

Turn their rough cheeks, and stay thee for thy kiss. 

The blasts have rocked thy cradle, and in storm 
Covered thy couch, and swathed in snow thy form, 
Yet, blessed by all the elements that sweep 



FRANCIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. "J"] . 



The clouds above, or the unfathomed deep, 
The purest breezes scent thy blooming hills, 
The gentlest dews drop in thy eddying rills; 
By the mossed bank, and by the aged tree. 
The silver streamlet smoothest glides to thee. 

The young oak greets thee at the water's edge, 
Wet by the wave, though anchored in the ledge. 
— 'Tis there the otter dives, the beaver feeds. 
Where pensive osiers dip their willowy weeds. 
And there the wild-cat purrs amid her brood, 
And trains them in the sylvan solitude. 
To watch the squirrel's leap, or mark the mink 
Paddling the water by thy quiet brink; 
Or to out-gaze the gray owl in the dark, 
Or hear the young fox practising to bark. 

Dark as the frost-nipped leaves that strewed the ground. 

The Indian hunter here his shelter found; 

Here cut his bow and shaped his arrows true. 

Here built his wigwam, and his bark canoe, 

Speared the quick salmon, leaping up the fall. 

And slew the deer without the rifle ball. 

Here his young squaw her cradling tree would choose 

Singing her chant, to hush her swart pappoose; 

Here stain her quills, and string her trinkets rude, 

And weave her warrior's swampum in the wood. 

No more shall they thy welcome water bless. 
No more their forms thy moonlit banks shall press. 
No more be heard, from mountain or from grove, 
His whoop of slaughter, or her song of love. 



L.efC. 



yS. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY. 

Down sweeps the torrent ice— it may not stay 
H\' rock or bridge, in narrow or in bay — 
Swift, swifter to the heaving sea it goes, 
And leaves thee dimpling in thy sweet repose. 
— Vet as the unharmed swallow skims his wa\'. 
And lightly drops his pinions in thy spray, 
So the swift sails shall seek thy inland seas, 
And swell and whiten in thy purer breeze. 
New paddles dip thy waters, and strange oars 
Feather thy wave, and touch thy noble shores. 

Thy noble shores! where the tall steeple shines. 
At mitl-da>' higher than th\' mountain pines. 
Where the white school house with its daily drill 
Of sunburnt children smiles upon the hill; 
Where the neat village grows upon the eyes, 
Decked forth in nature's sweet simplicity — 
Where hard-won competence, the farmer's wealth, 
Gains merit honor, antl gives labor health; 
Where Goldsmith's self might send his exiled bantl, 
To find a new "Sweet Auburn" in our land. 

What Art can execute, or Taste devise. 
Decks thy fair course, and gladdens m thine eyes. 
As broader sweep the bendings of thy stream. 
To meet the southern sun's more constant beam. 
Here cities rise, and sea-washed commerce hails 
Thy shores, and winds with all her flai)ping sails 
From trojjic isles, or from the torrid main. 
Where grows the grape, or sprouts the sugar-cane; 
( )r from the haunts where the striped haddock play, 
Hy each cold northern bank and frozen bay. 
Here, safe returned from every stormy sea. 
Waves the stripeil Hag, the mantle of the free; 



FRANCIS BALL S DESCENDANTS. 79. 



— That star-lit flag, by all the breezes curled, 
Of yon vast deep, whose waters grasp the world. 

In what Arcadian, what Utopian ground, 
Are warmer hearts or manlier feelings found; 
More hospitable welcome, or more zeal 
To make the curious "tarrying" stranger feel 
That, next to home, here best may he abide, 
To rest and cheer him by the chimney side; 
Drink the hale farmer's cider, as he hears 
From the gray dame the tales of other years; 
Cracking his shagbarks as the aged crone 
Mixes the true and doubtful into one, 
Tells how the Indian scalped the helpless child. 
And bore its shrieking mother to the wild; 
Butchered the father hastening to his home. 
Seeking his cottage — finding but his tomb: — 

How drums, and flags, and troops, were seen on high. 

Wheeling and charging in the northern sky, 

And that she knew what these wild tokens meant. 

When to the Old Frenh War her husband went. 

How, by the thunder-blasted tree was hid 

The golden spoils of far-famed Robert Kid; 

And then the chubby grandchild wants to know 

About the ghosts and witches long ago. 

That haunted the old swamp. 

The clock strikes ten 

The prayer is offered, nor forgotten then 
The stranger in their gates: — a decent rule 
Of Elders in thy puritanic school. 



80. WEST SPRINGFIELD BALL FAMILY 



When the fresh morning wakes him from his dream. 

And daylight smiles on rock, and slope, and strc-ani. 

Are there not glossy curls, and sunny eyes 

As brightly lit and bluer than thy skies. 

Voices, as gentle as an echoed call, 

And sweeter than the softened waterfall. 

And lovely forms, as graceful and as gay 

As wild-brier budding in an April day? — 

"How like the leaves — the fragrant leaves it bears. 

Their sinless purposes, and simple cares. 

Stream of my sleeping fathers! when the sound 
Of coming war echoed thy hills around. 
How did thy sons start forth from every glade, 
Snatching the musket where they left the spade! 
How did their mothers urge them to the fight, 
Their sisters tell them to defend the right; 
How bravely did they stand, how nobly fall, 
The earth their coffin, and the turf their p.ill; 
How did the oged pastor light his eye. 
When, to his flock, he read the purpose high, 
And stern resolve, whate'er the toil might be. 
To pledge life, name, fame, all— for Liberty. 

Hold river! better suited are thy waves 

To nurse the laurels clustering round their graves. 

Than many a distant stream, that soaks the mud 

Where thy brave sons have shed their i^rallant blood 

And felt, beyond all other mortal pain, 

They ne'er should see their hai)i)y home again. 




T. II. BALL 



1H1-: MAT. 



1 he litun oi >|)rin!4ti^'l<l orij^^'inallN' i-xlciuk'tl. o;i hutli 
■iiili's, all)!!;; what was th«.Mi called the (ireat Riv fr. 

In l6<-)6 a parish was torineil on the West sidi-. In 177.; 
the town of West Springfield was oriiani/eil. hOr ni i!i\ 
\ears this town extended honi the llaniptons to theC'on- 
nt'Clicnt line, a distance of about thirti*i-n ami a halt milts 
rin- pr«'sent map shows that this has l)i-en ili\ ided inti 
three towns, called IIol\(>ke. West Sprin^^field. and A-^a- 
w.ini. The i-.\tent ot each Ironi north to south is al>oui 
Ion." and a hall niilis. llu- south line ol llolxuke. taking 
in the- ri\cr. is three niiUs in lens^th. l"<u' many \iars thi 
population was mainly near the ri\(r. In iSjo tlu' popu- 
'. ttion of the entire area, nearly st.\i-nty sipiare miles. wa> 
•;J46. ( )f Sprini^firld at the same time was oid\- .V.»7(». 
Oil tile map will 1)1- S(H-n l-,lmwood wluuf In-nj.imin Kali 
s.-ttleti. where is now a small \illa;^n-. the localities ol t h( 
Morton residence and hCrre residence are also marked. 
ind At^awam xillan'r where an- two churches, a stor<-. a 
postofTliic, and the icmiterw 

I'he ma|t is not desii^ned as a sptn imt 11 ol nice work, 
l)iit to ^how to many who ha\c n<\ir sicn that region a 
\ i<-w ol till- locality so lari^cly relerrf(| to in this hook. 

.S(»m<' ol the liki-ncsscs in this hook arc ilesii^iiecl to 
preserve the ti-aturcs ol the dii)arted; some an- to show 
the supposed intluenc.i- ol mothers and ot climate. 





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A winter view of tlu: Hall tlm tret-. I'lantcd in 1751, 

still livi^J,^ Circumference about two feet from 
the j^'round 25 f<<t. Wlurc liml)S spread out 30 f< < t. 




CHARLES BALL, KSO.. of Ilolvokc- 




JUDGK HALL ..I Lake Countv. Ind. 




COL. EDWIN H. HALL, of Ildvokc. 




iri)(il-" HAI.l,. ..I >,(.(( C'(iiiiit\, Kansas. 




MRS. CAROLINE V. STREET, South Hadley Falls. 




MRS. s.\.Mn:i. i:i)(;( oMi;!-:. Mvsti 




:i-is.\Hi:rii n. woodakd, 

<-l.irlsL- Co.. Alabama. 




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